bkharman
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Long story short, I have been a holdout for a J/P but needed to make this maple bench top for my mud room project (coming soon to the project forum here) so I did the old school way. I used my track saw. Fist I needed to take some strips and drill out screw spots to attach to the bottom of the boards.
Then it was time to lay the bench top (1x6 hard maple) upside down in order, and attach these to held this all together. Very similar to how a table top would go.
Next flipped it over and got my 75” track out and was very close to getting another one to attach and cut the 81” cut but I had an idea of something I have done before... use my parallel guides instead! I have ones from Precision Dogs, but any would have worked here.
Because I have 4 planks to join, I had three cuts to make. I did one side to about 60” and then slid it down and continued the cut to the end. Since this is .75” maple, I did about 4 passes to not bog down the 55. I flipped the rail onto the opposite side and it was already perfectly aligned. Made that cut and then adjusted to the middle cut. Came out great!
I flipped it over took the screws out and took the planks back into my shop to domino and glue up. I threw a 6mm bit into my domino and made a bunch of cuts, not for strength, but mainly alignment (6x40s).
A couple of quick adjustments and my Seneca plate attached and I plunged away. I had the dominos more towards the bottom as I am going to do some inlay here later, so didn’t want to cut into them. Glue and clamps and she looks great! No gaps, flat as can be and ready for the next steps tomorrow.
I will do a full write up on the mud room project when I am done, but since a lot of people here don’t have jointers and often will buy borg wood, I thought this would be a good one to document.
Cheers. Bryan.
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Then it was time to lay the bench top (1x6 hard maple) upside down in order, and attach these to held this all together. Very similar to how a table top would go.
Next flipped it over and got my 75” track out and was very close to getting another one to attach and cut the 81” cut but I had an idea of something I have done before... use my parallel guides instead! I have ones from Precision Dogs, but any would have worked here.
Because I have 4 planks to join, I had three cuts to make. I did one side to about 60” and then slid it down and continued the cut to the end. Since this is .75” maple, I did about 4 passes to not bog down the 55. I flipped the rail onto the opposite side and it was already perfectly aligned. Made that cut and then adjusted to the middle cut. Came out great!
I flipped it over took the screws out and took the planks back into my shop to domino and glue up. I threw a 6mm bit into my domino and made a bunch of cuts, not for strength, but mainly alignment (6x40s).
A couple of quick adjustments and my Seneca plate attached and I plunged away. I had the dominos more towards the bottom as I am going to do some inlay here later, so didn’t want to cut into them. Glue and clamps and she looks great! No gaps, flat as can be and ready for the next steps tomorrow.
I will do a full write up on the mud room project when I am done, but since a lot of people here don’t have jointers and often will buy borg wood, I thought this would be a good one to document.
Cheers. Bryan.
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