Beautiful work! I like mission style (and morris style chairs) and have done a fair amount myself but haven't made much of it for our own use. When my wife looks at it, she sees 'dust catcher' so I make it for others when I can.
Beautiful work! I like mission style (and morris style chairs) and have done a fair amount myself but haven't made much of it for our own use. When my wife looks at it, she sees 'dust catcher' so I make it for others when I can.
Scott
I've been a Stickley and Greene and Greene lover for most of my adult life and really like the work you have been doing for the library over the years. I do have a couple questions about your mortise and tenon rigs.
I notice you are using a smaller bit for the mortises. I'm assuming you make the mortises 3/8 wide and wonder why you don't use the same 3/8 bit as you use for the tenons and just cut on vector? Are you setting both mortises and tenons for the same size and a tight fit or creating a small allowance?
Enjoyed the video and your rig. Do the posts getting tenons have more holding them in place then the one side and bottom fence stop and the ram?
Really like your carving work as well (as you know!!).
Dave I use a 1/4 bit mostly for mortises, and 7/16 cutter for tenons on 4/4 and 6/4.
The reason for this is I sharpen my own tooling so I have several files to account for fit as diameter changes. Hope that makes sense.