Wow,
So, after 15 months dormant...
John T. awakens this thread?
The internet is a new animal in our lives.
Although time passes... it never forgets.
Cwazy shtuff. Very cool.
Hello to you too, John.
After joining the Creek a year ago, you make your first 2 posts this week?
And both threads that you responded to were older, and involved A&C style...
I suspect you are hatching somethin'!
What are you building John? and when can we get a peek?
You know the Creek is hungry for tasty woodworking photos...
If you do attempt to bevel fascia with a router bit, let us know how it works out.
Splining the cores would solve a problem that I never had...
my cores went together like a dream, very pleasant proceedure.
I recall how I enjoyed those glue-ups, and how a quick chisel scrape levelled the channel to let-in the infill fascia.
No alignment difficulties at all, and produced a true channel. Your mileage may vary.
You suggest it might simplify, but I say machining stopped grooves adds
more complication. Tallies to a net loss. I found any form of splines unneccesary anyhow.
(biscuits, loose tenon, etc)
Yes, sure, a one piece core could be used, if you could find stock thick enough...
but I used this approach is get ray flake on all leg faces when working in QSW oak.
I have never had the good fortune to find QSWO available for sale thicker than rough 8/4".
The multi-piece core is actually one of the shining advantages of this approach.
If you wanted to build up a thick, solid furniture leg but only had thinner
stock, this method enables you to do so, and with virtually invisible joints.
So versatile, and sooo discreet.
The original posted legs built this way by Mark Singer, we're huge!
linked here:http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthre...t=coffee+table
So, sure, the cores could be a single piece with a ploughed dado groove and then rip out the bevels to form the infill channel.
Totally do-able.
But the elegance of M.S.'s approach is to accomplish any size of core by layered build-up,
and also accomplishing the cores in just 4 cuts per core-half with a regular tablesaw blade.
I appreciate not having to swap the dado stack in and out of the saw.
I also appreciate leaving the waste in stick form, versus more sawdust everywhere... including my lungs.
Not to mention the dado is less safe according to the increased exposure to risk theory.
Gives the saw more strength with increased grab on the wood.
Dado injuries I have seen are just nasty, with nothing left to try to sew back.
Each core-half requires just 4 cuts with a regular blade.
20-leg-half-cores.jpg
But gladly, only 2 saw set-ups which is quick and dirty...
the way you like it.
The test pieces are from 2x4 scraps, and the 20 cores are enough to build 5 legs.
The worst of the legs becomes a shop sample, a layout story-stick and is useful for mortise testcuts.
Thanks for your interest,
good luck with it and
be sure to share a peek, with the Creek.
Walt
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