G&G Inspired Chest of Drawers - Build Thread

[larry merlau]

guess i missed something glenn.. the first photo of your jig shows maybe a 1/4" of opening yet you show a 3/4" board going in there to route.. are you a magician or did miss something

[glenn bradley]

guess i missed something glenn.. the first photo of your jig shows maybe a 1/4" of opening yet you show a 3/4" board going in there to route.. are you a magician or did miss something

I noticed that. Poor demonstration on my part. The first shot shows the stop block. The other end has a top only so there is a skinny 3/4" between the underside and the table. My bad . . . .

[larry merlau]

whew i thought i had lost more up stairs than just my hair that was what i had thought it was made like but couldnt tell// thanks glenn

[Gary Zimmel]

Nice little trick with the jig Glenn...
I am getting cloer to making a whole mess of half lad joints and I usually do them on my table saw.
I'm thinking it would be worth the time to steal this jig idea.

[glenn bradley]

Alright, I was wrong on that one. The jig is sweet for when the board is too big to run on the saw comfortably. Like the long stretchers of a dining table or a new bench, it is sometimes safer to take the cutter to the material instead of vice-versa. The long arms of the web frames ares only about 32" so I change to the tablesaw with a dado stack. The dust collection on the tablesaw turned the tide. The two pieces of scrap clamped to the sled are a stop block for position and a hold down to keep the end of the part from rising.

[glenn bradley]

Oh yeah, definitely quicker and cleaner.

[Gary Zimmel]

Good to know Glenn.
Before I went out to my shop and made one of those jigs....

[glenn bradley]

Still inching along . . . It has been hot here in the basin so LOML and I took off for San Diego for a few days.

Got back and glued up some web frames. To keep some space to work while gluing up larger parts like this, I assemble and clamp them on a known flat surface. After 30 minutes for the glue to set up, I carefully move them to the floor somewhere out of the way and clamp up the next set.

[larry merlau]

glenn i see you have some triangles that you use for square checking,, how did you make sure they were square. measurment?? and if so what was the size you made them? looks like something that would help out many of us on panel glue ups to make sure they are right before they are set up in the clamps

[Rob Keeble]

Glenn I am glad you returned to the table saw because i thought thats how i would do it and i dont see the merits of the jig.

However you made me remember the guy in the

UK Steve Maskery and his ultimate bandsaw tenon jig.

His website is here but i find no mention of a half lap.

I was thinking is this not one of those joints that would do well on the bandsaw.

He and his jig cut perfect tenons and i figure what is a half lap other than a tennon with only one shoulder.

At some point i would like to get his plans and try the jig he has for tennons.

When one thinks about it, either half lap or tenon joints when they occur in a piece there tends to be several so it would pay to have an efficient method thats repeatable.

When one looks at the dado ts method it still is open to many erros and very time consuming when you look at the number of cuts if there are several pieces.

On the BS this would be 4 cuts for each half lap. That would seem to me to be very efficient. And once set up the repeatability should be a sinch no?

What say you and the rest.

I do like the way you work.