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  1. 4th May 2009, 09:42 PM #1
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    A little advice please girls and boys.

    I'm making a dining table out of some Studley reject stuff. The design is a 1600mm square with bread board style ends that are mitred to the legs.

    My question is how to strengthen the joint over the spline I have already cut. A rail will go between the legs however I have discarded tenons on the rails as I think getting everything to align for glueing will be too much even with the wiggle room allowed for in the spline.

    I have considered through splines as per Rockers Z joint but I don't think it will suit the look.

    The pics show progress so far.

    So what do you think?

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    why not make 2 pieces I.E. join 2 pieces together to make 1 half of the frame. Do this with the other 2 pieces. When the glue has dried on both halves then join them together to make a whole
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    Quote Originally Posted by coffenup View Post
    why not make 2 pieces I.E. join 2 pieces together to make 1 half of the frame. Do this with the other 2 pieces. When the glue has dried on both halves then join them together to make a whole
    Regards Michael
    Thanks for the response I'm not sure I'm quite with you but you have given me an idea.

    Make the rail in two pieces a braced butt or half lap joint in the middle and loose tenon each piece to the leg. A bit of messing around but this would allow me to glue up the mitres I'm using thickened epoxy then fit the rail afterwards.

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