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Pete Bradley
09-27-2006, 9:59 PM
I'm interested in the paneled walls and wainscoting put in so many houses of the late 18th century. Nowadays this would be done with cope/stick cutters, but the rounded profile around the panel is 1/2" wide X 3/8" deep, which would require a 1/2" deep end-grain cope next to the tenon. The rounded profile is integral with the rails and stiles as illustrated by the cracked joint at right (and other pics I've looked at). How were the rail/stile joints made? coped? something else?

Pete

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ct/ct0200/ct0230/photos/025088pv.jpg

harry strasil
09-27-2006, 10:08 PM
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=42211&highlight=stile+rail

tod evans
09-28-2006, 7:23 AM
exactly jr.! here`s a real life example....tod

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Pete Bradley
09-28-2006, 7:49 PM
Checking out the high res version the broken joint definitely looks coped (warning large):

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ct/ct0200/ct0230/photos/025088pu.tif

I realize the depth of the cope would actually be 3/8, but you'd still need a narrow plane that could slide along the side of the tenon, or perhaps more likely it was done with a gouge and then the rest of the stick in the joint was cut away. I might give that a try.

Pete