First, this is my version of a table made by Darrell Peart. Kudos to him for really outstanding work.
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What drew me to this table were the exposed splines in the top, and the way each "pie" piece had the grain merging at a center point. The exposed splines seem like an evolutionary step in Arts and Crafts design: the joinery is not only celebrated as a design element, but the actual joinery is exposed along its working length. I gotta admit I was quite taken with it. So much so that in my original day dream (plans - we don't need no stinkin' plans!) I intended to make the loose tenons between the legs exposed for about a 1/4".
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But after dry fitting everything, I changed my mind: it just didn't look right. It looked like a mistake....er, feature. And a lot of work was used making the mortise depth exact, and the purple heart tenons all a perfect fit. I made the mortises using a cordless router, all a 1/4", with this rube goldberg thing:
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and the tenons all got planed to fit:
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