Dave Richards
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The other day I was poking around on one of the design blogs I like to follow and they showed a small stand made out of sheet metal. It is designed to hold a computer bag or similar. I thought it might be interesting to do something similar in wood and I was looking for a practice SketchUp project anyway. (Someday, I swear, I'm going to master it. Hasn't happened yet, though.)
So let's make the top part out of a few layers of bending ply and veneer the outside faces. Maybe 1/4 inch thick altogether. The legs are 1/2" thick Baltic Birch. How would you attach the top to the legs with no visible fasteners? My thought is to use a couple of dowels, one on each surface and kind of snap the top into place on them.
What's your approach?
By the way, I'm not sold on the feet or the arch on the stretcher. They were just put in for the idea.
So let's make the top part out of a few layers of bending ply and veneer the outside faces. Maybe 1/4 inch thick altogether. The legs are 1/2" thick Baltic Birch. How would you attach the top to the legs with no visible fasteners? My thought is to use a couple of dowels, one on each surface and kind of snap the top into place on them.
What's your approach?
By the way, I'm not sold on the feet or the arch on the stretcher. They were just put in for the idea.
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