Its on!
After reading Maloof's book last summer, I ordered the DVD and templates from Scott Morrison, claiming the lowback to be my "winter project". Now its (actually "they" as I'm making a pair) on the way as I officially have completed the first few steps:
Glued the templates on plywood, cut out with a bandsaw and sanded to line:
Milled, ripped, ripped to 3 degree angle, cross cut the seats:
In fact, after sleeping on it a couple of weeks, went back and jointed to 3 degrees, as I had some smoke coming out of the table saw blade when ripping to 3 degrees. Also had some other issues holding the pieces. Hint: Rip very close to final width before ripping to 3 degrees, otherwise it will bind…
Being the smart woodworker, I made several practice pieces to be used in the different phases of making the Maloof-joint:
So no wonder that the first step on the actual piece succeeded fine. I first made several cuts with a table saw, and then clamped several pieces together and used a bullnose shoulder plane to get the surface even:
Since I have a biscuit router, I used biscuits and not dowels. I'm not worried about the strength, only the alignment when clamping. And yes, I did (try to) compensate for the 3 degree angle:
I also already bandsaw the backlegs. After bandsawing the DVD carried on with next steps. I clearly needed another step; tape the template to the blank, and rout flush…
And here my practice pieces came in handy again. I routed one piece to see the final width, and used that (to yet another practice piece) to find out the fact width for the upper part of the front legs. Since I don't have access to a dado set, I have concocted a very elaborate sequence to rout the dados into the legs. So far, so good. The next steps of the sequence only exist in my mind, so I won't bother trying to explain them yet. We'll se how it goes…
Later…
But don't hold your breath, this may take a while. My goal for applying the finish is somewhere during my summer vacation in July…
After reading Maloof's book last summer, I ordered the DVD and templates from Scott Morrison, claiming the lowback to be my "winter project". Now its (actually "they" as I'm making a pair) on the way as I officially have completed the first few steps:
Glued the templates on plywood, cut out with a bandsaw and sanded to line:
Milled, ripped, ripped to 3 degree angle, cross cut the seats:
In fact, after sleeping on it a couple of weeks, went back and jointed to 3 degrees, as I had some smoke coming out of the table saw blade when ripping to 3 degrees. Also had some other issues holding the pieces. Hint: Rip very close to final width before ripping to 3 degrees, otherwise it will bind…
Being the smart woodworker, I made several practice pieces to be used in the different phases of making the Maloof-joint:
So no wonder that the first step on the actual piece succeeded fine. I first made several cuts with a table saw, and then clamped several pieces together and used a bullnose shoulder plane to get the surface even:
Since I have a biscuit router, I used biscuits and not dowels. I'm not worried about the strength, only the alignment when clamping. And yes, I did (try to) compensate for the 3 degree angle:
I also already bandsaw the backlegs. After bandsawing the DVD carried on with next steps. I clearly needed another step; tape the template to the blank, and rout flush…
And here my practice pieces came in handy again. I routed one piece to see the final width, and used that (to yet another practice piece) to find out the fact width for the upper part of the front legs. Since I don't have access to a dado set, I have concocted a very elaborate sequence to rout the dados into the legs. So far, so good. The next steps of the sequence only exist in my mind, so I won't bother trying to explain them yet. We'll se how it goes…
Later…
But don't hold your breath, this may take a while. My goal for applying the finish is somewhere during my summer vacation in July…