Snuck in a little over a hour late afternoon.
Got the tenons cut for the smaller stretchers. This should give me a good jumpstart on getting all joinery done on the base tomorrow. I’ll still have some odds and ends including either smoothing the all the pieces prior to assembly and or sandingthem? I also am putting a routed detail I guess a small cove on all four sides of all the legs.
The shoulder on these pieces almost is not there. It’s just enough to not not be there and hide any small potential tear out or chips from mortising.
Small shoulders.
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Another perfect fit cheating with the shaper and slot mortiser. I guess this should not be in the Neanderthal forum.
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I didn’t tenon the longer stretchers as the material was not close enough to the finished .5” thickness to think the pieces would stay flat if I was to bring them all the way down today. I left them oversized just enough I can take a pass on the jointer and run through the planer of needed tomorrow. If flat then just the planer. I left the shaper all setup to cut these four tenon first thing.
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As it sits for now. Once I get building I have a hard time stopping. I could probably easily build this whole base with e material all prepped in one long marathon day. Good thing others require my attention or I’d never leave the shop I guess. I always torn and find it hard to stop working.
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