Jamie Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Great progress! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted March 6, 2021 Author Share Posted March 6, 2021 After gluing up the leg blanks I cut some veneer to glue over the glue lines on the leg blanks. You can see the veneer on the top and bottom on this end view of the leg. Doing this gives you nice grain on all four sides of your leg and saves you having to buy thicker stock to make you legs from. After this I made up a jig to cut the dados in the legs for the web frames using the router. Squared up the dados with some chisels. Next up is the web frames. 6 Quote "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 Nice looking legs! I’m going to be using your trick on legs real soon! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodenskye (Bryan) Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 Nice work Chet! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 I love jigs but unfortunately so many are a one time deal. I save a few but most go to the burn pile. Looking good Chet! Sure like the veneer trick! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted March 6, 2021 Author Share Posted March 6, 2021 37 minutes ago, Jamie said: I’m going to be using your trick on legs real soon! 4 minutes ago, Coop said: Sure like the veneer trick! The other step to this but I haven't done it yet is you put a really small chamfer which completely hides the veneer line. The thinner the veneer the smaller chamfer has to be. This was about 1/16". 7 minutes ago, Coop said: I love jigs but unfortunately so many are a one time deal Yep, this one will get tossed as soon as I know I haven't messed up anything and need to make a new leg. I save the hardware, I even remove the screws to us in the next jig. 1 1 Quote "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted March 7, 2021 Author Share Posted March 7, 2021 Well I had something go wrong today. I guess I didn't tighten the bit in the router properly and while cutting the dado on the back legs for the back panel the bit started to raise as I was going along. I got about 6 inches in when I felt the bit chattering a little, thats when I found out what was going on. You can see some of the chatter marks where the arrow is pointing. The pencil line shows how the bit was climbing most of the material to the left of the pencil line wasn't supposed to be gone. I tightened up the bit but then ran another pass at that height to clean things up for a patch. I squared up the end of the router cut with a chisel Next I cut a patch and glued it into place. On the patch piece I under cut at a 45° the end that was going up against the area I squared with the chisel hoping to get a tighter fit there. I ran it a couple of times through the drum sander, then finished flushing up the patch with the leg with my block sander. I re-cut the dado at the "correct height" this time, and flushed the leg end. There is some color difference on the patch and you can see the end of the patch (Arrow). The good news is this is a back leg on the nightstand and will be against the wall. 3 Quote "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 Glad you caught the loose bit when you did. Very nice recovery. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 Nice job on the repair! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushwacked Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 wont even be able to tell in the end with the great looking repair! 104BF of Sapele would be amazing to play with! These are going to look amazing!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 Nice repair! I think only you will know it is there. Well I guess the rest of us know as well but I promise my lips are sealed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted March 8, 2021 Author Share Posted March 8, 2021 Well like I said, it is the beak side of a back leg so yea, it won't be seen. If nothing else it was good practice for when I really muck something up. 4 Quote "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted March 10, 2021 Author Share Posted March 10, 2021 Had some time today and got all the mortises done for the aprons, 32 in all. After that I used up some scraps to make the loose tenon stock. 6 Quote "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Sweet looking pile! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Hope you have those buggers numbered? But then again, not everyone is like me. I could have two pieces and screw it up! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Nice job Chet!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted March 10, 2021 Author Share Posted March 10, 2021 1 hour ago, Coop said: Hope you have those buggers numbered? There are witness marks all over them Coop and once the dry fitting commences there will be more. 1 Quote "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 Today I worked on he web frames. After cutting everything to size I cut mortises in all the pieces. Ends of the short pieces. And the edges of the long pieces. It took about 75 minutes to do 64 mortises. I really liking this Morley mortiser jig. Then it was just a matter of gluing and clamping everything. 5 Quote "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodenskye (Bryan) Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Nice work Chet! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 13 minutes ago, Woodenskye (Bryan) said: Nice work Chet! Absolutely ! I guess I’m going to learn a bunch on this project! You haven’t dry fitted anything yet and you have glued up the web frames. I don’t trust myself enough to do that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Those look great! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Nice job on both the mortiser and the web frames! I love how clean and organized your shop always is. It reminds me of high school woodshop and how at the end of every class the shop had to be back to the shape we found it in. I try but some days are better than others ? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 Wow that is fast on the mortises! Does the setup take quite a bit of fine tuning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted March 15, 2021 Author Share Posted March 15, 2021 14 hours ago, Jamie said: Does the setup take quite a bit of fine tuning? No it is pretty simple, you only have to mark out the mortise on piece if all you pieces are the same thickness like these web frames. If it is something like a leg and apron then you need to mark out on leg and one apron. You need one witness mark for the center of you mortise's width and the center of the mortises length. On the rail its on the end it looks like this. On the stile its on the side and looks like this. Then you clamp it in the mortiser, lining up the witness mark for the length of you mortise with the centerline on the mortiser itself. Then I have a piece that fits perfectly in the slot of the mortiser that has a centering line on it. Using this you adjust the top of the mortiser until the line lines up with the centerline on your piece of work for for the center of your mortises width. After you are setup like this all your other pieces just need a witness mark for the center of the mortise's length. You line it up un the center line of the mortiser, clamp it and go. Nothing else changes. In my thread about building this in the tips and techniques section I posted Morley's video and he probably explains it better. 6 Quote "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted March 15, 2021 Author Share Posted March 15, 2021 I cut the curves on the aprons using the bandsaw and cleaned them up using the spoke shave. No action shots though, I forgot. Then I cut the tapers on the bottoms of the legs at the bandsaw. Cleaned them up back to my line with a hand plane. Then I thought I would go ahead and stack them together to make sure I tapered the right sides.? This afternoon I hand sanded everything to 180 and then, just for Coop, I did a dry fit. I am going to have to shave about a 1/32 of the width of the web frames because my front and back aprons have a small gap. Other then that I am pleased so far. 5 Quote "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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