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SEPT/OCT
2003
Volume 46/Issue 5
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Queen Anne Living Room Tables
• Covered Wagon Toy Box
• Tilting Shelf Sewing Thread Holder
DEPARTMENTS
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Academy Notes
Clean
Cuts - Pt. 2 - Lathe Tool Sharpening
Service Pointers
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Safety Tips
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42"
Filter Hood for DC3300
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The Queen Anne Living Room Tables
Loosen your bar clamp, rotate the Leg a quarter-turn and re-secure the clamp. Chamfer all four corners of each Leg in a similar fashion.
Sculpt the Legs and Feet until they are close to their desired (and hopefully, identical) contours by filing each corner around the Legs to their marked centerlines. Additional rounding will be necessary. Be sure to leave some material for later removal by sanding. Take your time! (See Fig. 12.)
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| Fig. 12. Additional corner rounding will be required. |
Sanding the Legs
Mount a pneumatic,
contour sander in your Lathe and use it to bring the Legs to their final
profile. Start with a coarse
sleeve, then move to progressively finer sleeves, removing all filing
and sanding marks as you bring the Legs and Feet to their final shapes. Remember
to always sand with the grain whenever possible. (See Fig. 13.)
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| Fig. 13. Use a Contour Sanding Drum to finish sand the Legs. |
Use a small block plane to smooth the Leg Posts. It must be VERY SHARP, because you'll be planing nearly across-grain and a dull plane iron will surely tear the wood. (See Fig. 14.)
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| Fig. 14. Use a Block Plane tom smooth the Leg Posts |
Making the Table Skirts
Start by marking-out a trial tenon on an identically-sized piece of scrap.
Using this scrap piece, set-up your Table Saw and make the cuts with a Tenoning
Jig.
As an alternative, you could also use your Rip Fence as a stop to position the shoulder of the Tenon and your Miter Gauge to guide your stock past the blade as you make your cuts.
Next, fit your tenons into their respective mortises, using a sharp bench chisel. Use your Disc Sander to chamfer the tenon ends slightly to allow for glue and make them easier to insert into their mating mortises.
Once you're confident that the joinery fits properly, trace a line on the tops of the Transition Blocks along the side. Round the top of the Transition Blocks to meet the line marking the bottoms of the Skirt edges.
View
Plans &
Assembly Drawings
Coffee
Table
•
Side View
• Side Skirt &
Tenon
• Leg
Joinery
• Table End Skirt
& Tenon
• Drop Leaf Support
• Leg Pattern
• Side
Skirt Pattern
• End Skirt Pattern
End
& Corner Table
•
Side View
• End Table Front
View
• Leg
Joinery
• Table End Skirt
& Tenon
• Rail and Pin/Tenon
• Leg Pattern
• Side
Skirt Pattern
• End Skirt
Pattern
• Drawer
Assembly
• Drawer
Joinery
• Drawer
Glide
• Drawer
Glide Assembly
•
List
of Materials
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