Progress is definitely being made. I used my new Router Mortising Jig and cut the mortises on the legs and stretchers. The new jig worked far better than I had expected. Woohoo! The plans don’t tell you everything to expect so when I did the first dry fit of the legs and aprons I found that some of the tenons did not properly fit. The mortises were 7/8” deep and the tenons were ¾”. Naturally, if the mortises are in the center of a 1 ¼” leg then the tenons would not fit all the way. I had expected this. After trimming some of the tenons I finally had a pretty good dry fit.
I am staying pretty much with the plan dimensions as to the overall size. I have not yet decided on my personal effect for the aprons. I have not even cut the cloud effect in the aprons.
The stretchers have the cloud effect. I made a template for the stretchers and then used the router table to trim the stretchers to size.
This was a really productive weekend and I had a lot of fun.
The next steps are to determine a design for the aprons and the table top.
More to come…
-- Fred Childs, Pasadena, CA - - - Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.
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oscorner
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posted 941 days ago
Great looking table, Fred! What a productive weekend. You did in a weekend what it has taken me a month to get done. Thanks for sharing.
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Karson
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posted 941 days ago
Good looking Fred.
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posted 941 days ago
Nice. Would that be Oak??
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posted 941 days ago
Nice going Fred, I love the figure in the Oak.
It won’t be long, & you’ll be looking for something else to make
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shack
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posted 941 days ago
Looking good Fred.
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fred
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posted 940 days ago
Zuki – yes it is oak.
I am going to make new stretchers. Everything was cut to size according to the plans but the stretchers turned out about 1/4” short. Oh, well.
Another lesson learned: I used to mark the parts with pencil but switched to marking the parts with chalk. From test fitting and handling the parts it is getting difficult to read them now. I am going to mark them again with pencil tonight.
-- Fred Childs, Pasadena, CA - - - Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.