Thread: dining table legs advice

Originally Posted by plunger

One less jig to make....yay

Plunger - sometimes it pays to ignore advice!

Certainly sympathise with the 'minimum jigs' ethic, I avoid them as much as possible myself, & since I rarely make more than 1 or 2 of anything, it's not too hard to do.

Cheers,

> Ivan - yes I've got the router but it does mean I have to make yet another jig!!!!

That wasn't me!!!!!!

I'd get my No7
Just mark how far down I'd need to Plane,
then make some shavings,
and have a Sweat, dripping all,over my work

That's great plunger. Well done. Don't forget to show us the finished table OK.

Will do Wongo, I'm making it with Marri with a dark grey glass insert.......and thanks guys for the advice. I guess in the end I didn't take your advice but it is always good to consider alternatives. I think I was more worried about the safety aspect with the fence at 45 and also the worry of stuffing up the legs after spending time and money on them.

Cheers

Originally Posted by plunger

I guess in the end I didn't take your advice but it is always good to consider alternatives.........
Cheers

Well, Plunge, I wouldn't be too concerned about that - one usually garners so many conflicting bits of advice here! But there are many ways to skin the proverbial cat, & that's part of the fun of this business. What works, works & if it doesn't require another silly jig, then so much the better, say I.

(With which a few well-known BBers would strongly disagree.. )

Avagoodone
& post some pics!

No worries mate. You know you can do it with a thicknesser too. But you will need a jig too. I know you don't like building jigs.

Thought I'd post some pictures of how I ended up doing the legs.

Pic 1 shows the jointer setup with fence at 45, I put a piece of MDF on the face of the fence with double sided tape to give a larger surface area. End stop is clamped to infeed table so you get a consistent starting point for each pass. The infeed table has been lowered about 3mm.

Pic 2 shows the leg being planed, it took about 8 passes to get the finished result shown on Pic 3.

The haunched mortises were done prior to this, so now the legs are done.

Cheers
Garry

Great work plunger. Good to go with your instincts.

I like the look of the table - with legs like that it will be a solid bit of kit.

Trav