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Good article on attaching table tops. What I call "Wood Movement 101", or "You can't stop wood movement but you have to allow for it." Something not all Asian furniture companies know or care about. I like the opening line: Show me a woodworker who has glued or screwed a solid wood tabletop to its base, and I’ll show you a person who has learned a painful lesson in wood movement. https://www.woodcraft.com/blog_entries/joinery-class-attaching-tabletops?utm_source=SocialOrganic&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Dec22&utm_content=Article&fbclid=IwAR3Srybq2QCXcx9hZOKMbVVrvcWCt6GSKVEQ1FUzdeYh5-rSnTRliZk9GS4 69-JClass-AttachingTops_FINAL.pdf
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The Wood Magazine that arrived yesterday has a good article on wood movement. Prior to getting it, the guys at the furniture bank and I were discussing wood movement problems. I've seen a lot in imported furniture that had no understanding or allowance for wood movement. The article says: 1. Wood moves 2. Wood never stops moving 3. Attempts to constrain wood movement will cause problems.
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Free thru 4/30/20. As I say, "You cannot control wood movement, you can only accommodate it." VOE: Chinese factories need to watch this. Or care. https://www.canadianwoodworking.com/video/subscribers-only/woodworking-basics-wood-movement-subscribers-only?utm_source=Canadian+Woodworking&utm_campaign=d543cff931-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020-04-free-videos&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_490231050d-d543cff931-78334825
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Free thru 4/30/20. As I say, "You cannot control wood movement, you can only accommodate it." VOE: Chinese factories need to watch this. Or care. https://www.canadianwoodworking.com/video/subscribers-only/woodworking-basics-wood-movement-subscribers-only?utm_source=Canadian+Woodworking&utm_campaign=d543cff931-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020-04-free-videos&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_490231050d-d543cff931-78334825 https://www.canadianwoodworking.com/video/subscribers-only/woodworking-basics-three-common-furniture-engineering-challenges-subscribers?utm_source=Canadian+Woodworking&utm_campaign=d543cff931-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020-04-free-videos&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_490231050d-d543cff931-78334825
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Hi, I am hoping that some of our very knowledgeable members here will share their bountiful wisdom with me. (Did I lay it on too thick?) A good friend of mine has a small cabinet in his bathroom that matches their medicine cabinet. It appears that the wrong hinges were used on this cabinet. For the cabinet door to lay flat against the face of the cabinet, the hinges would need to be spaced out from the face by 1/8-3/16 of an inch. My friend tried to force it shut, and well........ the door didn’t take kindly to that. So the advice part.... I believe this is what is called a raised panel door. I have a cheap raised door panel router bit set coming from MLCS. I’m planning on making the door frame out of Poplar, and was thinking that a 3/4 piece of Baltic Birch could be the raised panel. The total dimensions of the door is 13x16x3/4. Will wood movement between the Poplar, and the BB (on account of them being different woods) doom my work? I have never glued up boards to make a panel yet, and it seems cutting a piece of BB square would be fairly easy (you know, for someone like me ). Is using a router bit ( I know to make small cuts, and sneak up onto my final dimensions) on BB worse for the bit, with the glue of BB versus glued up Poplar? This is a cheap cabinet, and I know it would be much cheaper to buy a new one, but I want to make this, and get me some new learning in. As always any thoughts, advice, opinions, are welcome. Thank you. Artie
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Hello, I have been asked by my son to build some nested tables for him and his wife. I glued up some oak panels for a tops a few weeks ago and I see now that one has a slight bow in the center. The plans my son gave me has cross pieces that you use to attach the tops to the tables. I was only going to put glue only in the center of the cross piece, and hopefully screw the bow down at the front and the back. Then at the sides I was going to put a slight slot in the cross piece and put a screw in it so it can move around. Am I thinking correctly about getting rid of the bow and wood movement? Best regards, Ron
