A bunch of technical/logistical stuff today, no cyclone to empty
I have a question for the brain trust, I want to change the way these chairs are constructed, the joints for the aprons and the legs.
Right now they are using a wedged through tenon on the side aprons, and just a stub tenon on the front and rear aprons. I think they used a wedge tenon partly to take up the slack of their very poor fitting mortise and tenons (M&T). The problem I have with the wedged M&Ts in this case is that the wood is not the strongest of wood, it is certainly NOT maple or oak, so relying on wedges is not good.
I would rather do a M&T that the ends of the tenons meet in a 45 and then the tenon is pinned into the mortise, something like this...
Now I do not think this is a radical departure from the old build, but an upgrade in the construction technique.
You can sort of see what I was dealing with on the repair 4 years ago....
What do you think?
Please pick apart my thinking on this if you can, I'm not going to get them to move on M&T joints but I hope to upgrade to this pinned joint, I think it will be a lot stronger.
Cheers!