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  1. #16
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    Thanks Brian!

    So the legs have a sort of craftsman/shaker style with the three vertical pieces. I’m not sure I love the look, but wanted to try something I hadn’t done yet, and seems to add a little something to the design. I ripped two long strips, and followed my typical MO. I hand planed two adjoining faces square and flat, and then ran them through the lunch box planer to final thickness. Pieces were then hand cut to length, accounting for the depth of the mortise. Then tenons were cut.
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    The upper and lower stretchers were marked out and mortises chopped. As seen in the previous photos, I don’t spare any painters tape marking stuff. Because my tenon/mortise work is still a bit inconsistent, each one gets a sort of “custom” fit and I’d never remember which tenon goes to which mortise when all is done.

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    As much as I procrastinate the glue up part, I took a deep breath and glued/clamped the leg sections.

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    Did my best to get everything tight and square. Close examination will reveal slight gaps at the back side of the tenon/mortise joint on a couple. Never tackling a multiple set up where all the parts need to be darn consistent, I felt ok about it. Sometimes no matter how many dry fits/clamp ups, something goes awry. Then that nasty, throw perfection to the wind mind set comes in...”doesn’t matter, it’s on the backside and will be hidden by the shelf” (thank goodness!)

    Then I had no excuses not to tackle the complete glue up. All went well. I might mentioned the other upside of this project is I needed one more Bessey 50”clamp. So even if this thing were to end up kindling...at least I got a cool clamp out of it.

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    I tend at this point to start already thinking “I wish I had”, but the glue is dry so carry on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Mueller View Post
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    It's looking very good, Phil.

    Regards from Perth

    Derek

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    Phil,

    Build threads are my favorite. Thanks for sharing and the table is looking great and looks like it will fit the space brilliantly.

    Looking forward to seeing more.

    Best,
    Chris
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    Good going Phil, but you missed one big opportunity:

    I went for a 3/8” tenon (the biggest reason being that is the largest mortise chisel I own). It certainly could have merited a 1/2” or so tenon
    Expressed properly to SWMBO, this would have you obeying her order to purchase a bigger mortise chisel or two.

    jtk
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    Will you pin the M&T joints or blind wedge or just glue?

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    I then set about to make the shelf and top. I use 1/4” foam core board. I do a rough cut and then a lot of trial and error to get to the final template. The foam core is stiff enough to hold, can keep a pretty good edge, and easy to work with.

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    I then make a copy of the foam core template with vellum trace paper. I do this so that I can see through it and get a better idea of how to arrange the boards in (what I believe) to be the best orientation before I cut, joint, and glue them up.

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    I then hand ripped where I wanted the boards to join, and did a cursory face planning to remove a bit of bow, cup, and twist on each of the three boards.

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    Boards are then jointed and glued up.

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    I’ll note at this point, that the cherry I purchased from the fellow SMC member down in Ohio had a good deal of sap wood. That’s ok with me. I took some time to lay it out to highlight it, and keep what I think is an interesting pattern.

    Once out of the clamps, I spent some time with a cursory flattening of the panel with a bevel up low angle jointer and a #5 jack. I then laid out the vellum pattern and arranged how I wanted to cut out the panel. I marked the outline about a 1/4” or so oversize (I did this knowing when I go to final planing there is a good chance of tear out on the edges).

    I rough cut one curve with my bow saw.

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    Well, that was fun enough. For all other cuts (including eventually the top), the Bosch jig saw came out.
    A final planing session or two to flatten and smooth out followed.

    From there, it was pretty much block plane and spokeshaves to final curved edge.

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    You’ll notice I cut the notches for the legs at some point in the process. No real point in showing off that stellar talent. A few dry fits and a little tweaking and it was good to go. I did leave a bit of room front to back for expansion. The length is a pretty tight fit. At this point I have no plans to screw it to the bottom stretchers...but that would be simple to do if for some reason it makes sense in the future.

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    Last edited by Phil Mueller; 03-15-2018 at 11:24 PM.

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    The top was constructed in the same way as the shelf. A foam core & vellum template was made, boards were marked and rough cut.

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    Edge jointing next, then glue up.

    13DF7A1F-2E6B-4D6D-AB0F-1E41C6FCDFEF.jpg A564A189-9304-4619-9534-E62860554E83.jpg A wee bit too much glue on this one. Once the glue set up for about an hour, it was easy to scrape off the excess with a putty knife.

    One out of the clamps, same process as the shelf...plane flat (always a good workout), marked out using the template, and rough cut with a jig saw. Curves were finished with block plan and spokeshaves. Don’t have a picture, but for both the shelf and the top, I used a spokeshave to round over the edges, refine with a curved cabinet scraper, and then sandpaper. While not a sophisticated “tool”, I cut out a hole in a piece of scrap with a forstner bit, cut that in half, and used it as my sanding block to finish out to 320 grit.

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    I next spent a bit of time cleaning up a few “mis-alignment” issues to square, level, and flatten a few areas. Especially in the drawer area before moving on to build those.

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    Drawers next...

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    Looking great so far, waiting to see what you are going to do with the drawer fronts.

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