Base Assembly

Today I did the joinery for the table base. I set up the Multirouter to do twin 3/8" x 2" mortises. I did this by laying out the joint off a center line on each part. This ensures that all the mortises will be spaced exactly the same. I had to get creative to clamp the 15" tall leg parts to the table.

After all the mortises were routed, I machined floating tenons in the same walnut. I fit the tenons to the mortises and glued them into each end of the stretcher. This way there are only 4 to glue at a time rather than eight.

After the base was all together, I started experimenting on the edge texture I will be using on the sawn edge. I'm using a tool called a micro scorp. This tool is hand made in Canada by Beebe knife works. http://www.beebeknives.com/index.html



Here is what I intend to do with it. I'm working at following the grain direction in the pattern of the tooling. Not sure if that will be apparent or not, but I'm going to try.