A friend of mine is helping me rout spline groove in the edges of my desk top pieces over the weekend on his router table. I’m preping the boards so that it’ll all be ready for the router and glue up.
I just got my February 2013 Fine Woodworking magazine and they were talking about fitting tenons. It was a good article, but I do something a little different (not necessarily better) at least for the tenon cheeks. Their fitting involves using a shoulder plane for the shoulder and a skewed rabbet plane for the cheeks.
Chris Schwarz talks about it a bit here (since I can’t share the FW article).
So for what it’s worth, here’s the way I do it.
I got a few more hours to work a bit more on the case sides for the desk .. which basically meant I go to make mortises. Does anyone like making mortise? Maybe if you have a Domino (See, Schwarz DID use power tools). Actually this set has worked well for me. Its a jig I got out of Bill Hylton’s book.
Oh and I got to use ugly jack plane again to get some boards to the proper thickness. I even unintentionally brushed my finger against the blade and cut it. That old blade seems to be holding a nice edge just fine. But I might have to find a new lever cap .. at least .. for that thing. It shore is ooogly. 😉
I got a little time to work on my workbench yesterday and got the mortises done. I opted to use the router for this task. Two inch, 5/8″ mortises seemed a bit daunting any other way. So I used the spinney load tool.
BTW, I converted my router dust collection similar to Chris Wong over at Flair Woodworks (thanks for the idea Chris!). In his post Adapting a Porter Cable 890-Series Plunge Router to fit a Festool D27 Dust Extraction HoseI believe he turned his piece of PVC to fit into his router dust collection. I just went to Home Depot and bought a piece of PVC that fit and tightened it all up with plummer’s tape.
I got some more time to work on the wine rack today. The purpose of this piece is more decorative than needed for all the wine we have. Truth be told, we’re really wine wienies and don’t drink that much but need something to fill the window inserts and this piece seemed to fit the bill.
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