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6th August 2010, 10:52 PM #76
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6th August 2010, 11:06 PM #77
Looking oh so lovely WW. I like the look of the triangle irons, I hadn't seen them before. I have reapired three tables in recent times where the joints have been broken. Don't know why I didn't think to strengthen them like that.
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6th August 2010, 11:44 PM #78
You've had a trifle more practise than most of us here WW. I think most people can do something or other that others find hard to comprehend how to do without actually doing it and practising it. For instance, I would find it difficult to achieve a constant angle of a hand saw throughout the cutting of that stopped dovetail cut and the same if paring the waste to a line that seems "blind" to me.
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7th August 2010, 08:51 AM #79
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10th August 2010, 06:37 PM #80
Making a Reading Table - Part Six
The reading slope is made up of a central panel floating within a mitred frame, joined at the corners with loose tennons. Once the slope has been cleaned up, I will work a simple moulding around the edge.
The reading slope glued together.
The drawer stuff is all quartersawn Oak and closely resembles the wainscot of the day. The bottom boards for the drawers are, at 3/16 in. (4.8mm) thick, basically thick veneer. After sawing and planing two 30 in. x 6 in. x 3/16 in. boards, I rubbed their edges together with some glue. The result was instantaneous and the joined boards were able to be held horizontally by one corner without fear of them falling apart. Modern adhesives are incapable of this.
Freshly glued drawer bottom board.
The grain direction of drawer bottoms of this period ran from front to back. After I have scraped the joined board clean, it will be cut into the two individual bottom boards.
The drawer construction at this date consisted of through dovetails front and back with glued-in bottom boards and runners.
The drawer sides..
I know you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you just read is not what I meant.
Regards, Woodwould.
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10th August 2010, 11:05 PM #81gravity is my co-pilot
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So there is no visible gap between the central panel and the mitred frame, it floats within a glued together surround? Impressive glue!
regards,
B-D.
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17th August 2010, 10:41 AM #82
Making a Reading Table - Part Seven
After the drawers were glued and assembled, the drawer fronts were veneered and cockbeaded with Walnut.
Cockbeading and drawer front.
The front of the bottom boards are supported in grooves in the inside bottom of the drawer fronts while the edges are glued into shallow rebates in the drawer sides along with the drawer runners. A few 5/8 in. cut brads (or, in the past, even blackthorns) secure the rear of the thin bottom boards to the backs of the drawers.
Drawer bottom and runner.
I cut the mortice and tennon joints in the three 3/8 ins. thick components that make up the horse. The hinges (when they're finished) will be let into the top ends of the legs where they attach to the underside of the reading slope and then let into the slope itself.
The 1/8 in. wide mortice and tennon joints in the horse components.
Two 1-1/2 in. hinges will be let into the top front edge of the carcase and also into the front of the slope thus enabling it to tilt.
I had almost forgotten about the moulded book stop which I stuck on the side of a board a week or so ago. I sawed the moulding off the board, cut it to length and carved the returns on the ends.
The moulded book stop.
I'm still not entirely sure whether the book stop will be fully- or semi-detachable (screwed on from the underside of the slope). Now that the table has a pair of short drawers as opposed to a single long one, it may appear the outcome is a foregone conclusion. However, last weekend, I came across a rather splendid solution to the dilemma. All will be revealed in due course.
It was fashionable to cut decorative scallops into the bottom of the pillar between the legs and also into the under side of the legs where they adjoin the pillar.
As can be seen, there were various popular arrangements of scallops, but inordinate zeal with a gouge could weaken the dovetailed joints. When one of these leg joints fails, it invariably begins with a split at the bottom of the pillar beside the leg, so removing too much 'meat' from these areas would be tempting fate. A few thoughtful cuts with an in-cannel gouge completed the decoration.
Decorative scallops cut into the pillar and claws.
There will be an indeterminate interlude while the handles and hinges are being cast..
I know you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you just read is not what I meant.
Regards, Woodwould.
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17th August 2010, 10:48 AM #83
More interest to your work.
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17th August 2010, 10:54 AM #84
Its looking really good Woodwould
Love the look of those legs they look so silky and smooth the decorative scallops you have added look excellent.Regards
Al .
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17th August 2010, 11:06 AM #85Jim
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I notice the pins on the dovetailed drawer are relatively large compared with a tendency nowadays to make them as small as physically possible. Was there much variation at this period in dovetail layout?
Cheers,
Jim
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17th August 2010, 11:18 AM #86
The front dovetails aren't as coarse as they might appear; they're partially covered by the half cockbeading. However, dovetails at this period (mid 18th century) weren't the saw-blade-width beauties that were de rigueur towards the end of the century.
Everything else to do with the drawer's construction remained the same until the mid 19th century. I blame Victoria. If we'd had a King on the throne, things might have been very different!.
I know you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you just read is not what I meant.
Regards, Woodwould.
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17th August 2010, 11:38 AM #87Jim
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Thanks WW. I didn't mean to imply that they looked coarse - they don't. If anything the extreme 'modern' tendency can give an impression of flimsy in my mind.
On the subject of Victoria, do you think that the victorian love of heavy furniture had anything to do with her consort?
Cheers,
Jim
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17th August 2010, 11:53 AM #88
As with all changes in monarchy, different styles and fashions altered virtually overnight, but I don't think Albert had much influence on taste as the kings and queens of the previous two centuries did. Victoria and her beloved Albert were well rounded people and enjoyed excesses of just about everything and were certainly followers of fashions, but not necessarily instigators of it.
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I know you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you just read is not what I meant.
Regards, Woodwould.
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17th August 2010, 01:12 PM #89
Nice work, Ed.
Will you be including elbow supports?
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17th August 2010, 01:16 PM #90.
I know you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you just read is not what I meant.
Regards, Woodwould.
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