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    Wedding gift table

    Coda: here is the table at the wedding venue in Alabama. I hope it doesn't rain!
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    Outside door frame - finished

    Nicely done. Trying a joint like that is on my list. For fun, here is a comparison with a Japanese version. This one doesn't have wedges, just sloping shoulder on the wide end of the male head and the matching female surface.
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Shop made furniture/machine table wax. 1 part carnauba, 3 parts beeswax, 10 parts turpentine. I used real gourmet turpentine, distilled from pine rosin. This mix is a little too hard to spread for furniture (it is about like cold butter) but it's great for machine tables. Very hard and shiny...
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    Wedding gift table

    And here are the yatoi hozo table top fasteners in place.
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    Wedding gift table

    And done except for some touch up to the finish.
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    Wedding gift table

    Final dry fitting before glue up. Delivery day is tomorrow.
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    Wedding gift table

    Near the finish line. The last of the joinery is to make four yatoi hozo (dovetailed spline tenons is one translation) to hold the top frame onto the base. I've set them flush on the inside of aprons. This is an uncommon use for these an normally they would be inline with the grain direction of...
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    Wedding gift table

    It's a tight fit but I think it will work. I found a layout glitch with the stub tenons interfering slightly with the corner joinery. It's going to take some judicious trimming to get that sorted but thankfully not a disaster.
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    Wedding gift table

    Today was making the shachi sen. These are oak. As I think I've mentioned before, the schachi taper in length and thickness to match their trenches, and are parallelogram in section. After cutting out blanks on the band saw, I use two planing jigs to get the tapers and shape the parallelogram. I...
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    Wedding gift table

    Here's a bit of the cutout for that locked mitre joint. Skinny chisels and a skinny saw. Two kerfs from the small cross cut saw. Some chisel work with a 3 mm push chisel and then a 9 mm crank neck (kotenomi). I have two of these and this one is exceptionally thin which is perfect for...
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    Wedding gift table

    Close, but it can't be on the outside or there is no way to get a pencil inside. Instead, put the guide block on the inside. Make a guide block the same size as the interior of the mortice and set out offset to the same distance as the offset on the tenon side. The add the taper and saw to the...
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    Wedding gift table

    Here's the layout/setout for the shachi sen trench in the locking corner joints. Getting those lines inside the mortice right is a challenge. That double line in front is not a mistake. The layout is done first at 45 degrees and then tapered slightly, about 1.5 mm. There is a special trick for...
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    Wedding gift table

    The top frame is rough cut. I'm using a Japanese locked miter at the corners Those still need to be fit, but here are the proportions along with a test stick for the finish regime. Cherry darkens naturally over time but I wanted a faster route. Cherry can be darkened immediately with sodium...
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    Possible New Project - Trophy

    The width of those stub tenons look to be about 1/10 that of the stock dimension. A three mm thick tenon would mean a 30 mm post. You could probably compress that down to a 20 mm stick and still keep a 3 mm tenon. Tricky work for sure. Maybe another design would be better.
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    Possible New Project - Trophy

    You could try this, although it would be a challenge on such thin members as I think you have in mind.
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    Chairs - Done!

    Just lovely. Congrats!
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    Wedding gift table

    Legs all tapered. Still a ways to go on them but I'm moving on to the top frame.
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    Wedding gift table

    I'm 95% not doing the flutes, but I reserve the right to change my mind! The upper band stays, since I've already routed a groove for it. No lower band, though.
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    Wedding gift table

    I was thinking something like this (without the foot), but I couldn't draw it. Something decorative in the recessed field would be nice, too, but that won't happen.
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    Wedding gift table

    One leg tapered today plus a simple recessed field at the top. Band saw and hand planes for the taper. i I haven't quite given up on flutes. I played around a little with Sketchup to see whether I would like them. It turns out to be really time consuming to draw actual rounded flutes so...
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