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Pair of Stickley lost end tables
A while ago I made a Stickley 962 server, and figured I needed some end tables to go with it, and saw Bob Lang's article on the lost end tables and figured why not.
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The only things I changed were the pulls and the thru tenon. I thought both were too squat and plain so I went with the pulls I used on the server and a different thru tenon. And like with the server, I made the drawer fronts and the bottom rail from the same piece of wood.
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As it turns out, I don't particularly like the thru tenon I made either. Some day I'll learn to do mock ups and models. I cut the top rails with the tenon jig and a sacrificial fence canted back 3 degrees and it worked fine. Had to reset for each of the 4 tenons and sneak up on the cut, but it was worth it. The angled shoulders for the bottom stretcher I cut by hand using a 3 degree guide block.
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I used the router table with a shim piece double taped to the table to give me the 3 degree pitch of the thru mortises, and this worked better than I expected. I was surprised how well it went with the test piece, and the final mortises were just as good. And the trusty Porter Cable saw delivered the 3 degree cuts on the ends of the top.
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Sanding the curves of the bottom rails was pretty easy. I use neoprene with a self stick back on a dowel rod to sand curves. As a matter of fact that neoprene gets used often in the shop, and in my wife's glass shop.
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tbc..............