Managed to get some forward progress on the wife’s entry table this weekend.

 

Wow Michael; what did you do during your "free time?" 

What is this “free time” you speak of?  That sounds suspiciously like the “vacation” myth propagated by HR departments

 

 

Now that IS a bunch of mortice and tenons!

10 minutes ago, StaticLV2 said:

What is this “free time” you speak of?  That sounds suspiciously like the “vacation” myth propagated by HR departments

 

 

Being an old HR Rep, dang you've found us out and our secret to justifying corporate value.

tab A, slot B....

14 minutes ago, DAB said:

tab A, slot B....

It’s just like Ikea

It is a nice sight to see all of the mortises and tenons and then to see how they all play nice with each other.  thanks

Danl

Must be a large entry space.  My mind envisions a simple table with no more than 8 M&T joints using 4 aprons into 4 legs under a top. Maybe a fancy inlaid top to dress it up, and a slight taper on the inside faces of the legs.  Looking at the pile of parts I thought you were doing a production run of several entry tables. 

4D

This is what was the wife decided she wanted.  

It is bigger and more complex than I think is strictly warranted but she gets to commission pieces for the house and I get to make sure I have the tooling to build them so it is win-win in my book

That'll be a statement piece for sure. Now I'm trying to figure out what all the drawers will be used for near the entry.

 

4 minutes ago, 4DThinker said:

That'll be a statement piece for sure. Now I'm trying to figure out what all the drawers will be used for near the entry.

 

I have been wondering that myself, but I learned a long time ago that asking logical questions about things like that is a non-starter.
Just caveat it with a not to exceed weight limit per drawer and let the chips fall where they may.  

Mike, please describe the techniques you used to give form to the legs.  thanks

Danl

Haven’t gotten to the legs quite yet.  
The blanks are ready to go through, and the process is straightforward.

1. Make a template.

2. Scribe the template on to the leg blanks

3. Rough cut out with a bandsaw.

4. Final shaping with spokeshaves and rasps

 

 

Did you hand chop the mortises, or do you have a hollow chisel mortise machine?

These were done on a mortise machine and cleaned up by hand.
Normally I would do them by hand but this thing has 50 mortises involved which is a fairly ridiculous amount for what it is.

 

 

Just wondering if you have any clue what the spots are that look like dowel ends on the photo of the project?   Symmetrical, but not where would expect them to be for perhaps pinning the tenons so they can't pull out.   My aesthetic eye loves the legs and lower stretcher, but wants to see a little more echo of that in the upper frame parts.  I know keeping the drawers easy to make and all the same complicates messing with the upper frame members, but the top section seems so rigid and square it looks a bit like it got put on the wrong set of legs. 

 

And as I looked again I realized the dowel ends are likely joining the front to back stretcher pieces that hold up each drawer and the drawer side rails.  

4D

Yes I thought the same thing at first that those were drawbored mortise joints but they are actually for the stretchers that hold the front and back together and also act as drawer boundaries.  I understand exactly what you are saying about the aesthetics.  I actually kind of wanted to go the other way with the legs and lower stretcher.  I wanted to do more of a G&G thing with it and do a cloud lift on the lower stretcher to accent the different levels and straight legs with a Blacker indent.   I wanted to do square pegs instead of dowels as well. 
Those ideas were roundly vetoed and I was instructed to “make it like the picture”.

 

If I ever do another one of these I would do it in that style.

Edited March 22, 20233 yr by StaticLV2

6 minutes ago, StaticLV2 said:

I was instructed to “make it like the picture”.

 

 

 The customer is always right...sometimes more than others....like when peace in the house is on the line.

Much dowel hole drilling has occurred.