I making some picture frames for the family this holiday season. The design draws heavily from Darrell Peart’s Seattle Frame. I did a quick mock up in CAD to play with the proportions. If anyone’s interested, I could upload some dimensioned drawings.
After several prototypes to get the joinery right, it was time top cut some mahogany. I got a piece with nice straight grain:
Pieces laid out:
Stock all milled with square holes made next to the prototype:
All 40 mortises cut:
Fast forward to the frames all glued up, square pegs in, and drinking in their first coat of varnish:
Racing against santa to get all the coats of varnish on and for the glass and mattes to be cut.
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wseand
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#1 posted 885 days ago
Great looking picture frames, the design is well done. I am sure the Family will enjoy the frames it looks like a lot of hard work went into them. Santa has it easy compared the the rest of us trying to finish projects prior to his arrival.
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#2 posted 885 days ago
Looks like router cut mortises- what did you use for a jig?
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#3 posted 885 days ago
@jimhamilton: I built the David Lehman jig from Fine Woodworking but found that the screws developed play very quickly with the birch ply I was using. I ended up ditching the “self centering” feature and marking a center line on the top of the jig to line up with the center line of the mortise. It worked pretty well though I had to tune a few of the mortises with a chisel. I’ll definitely make a new jig for the next project.
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#4 posted 885 days ago
Thats a nice looking picture frame.
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