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Glue / Drawbore follow up...
Dean J in MN
>Ran across an interesting paper on line, and in light of the entire glued tenon/drawbore topic I thought some may be interested. It speaks of 17th century work, but I have to believe it the methods carry forward...
Another data point to guide us if nothing else.
http://www.chipstone.org/publications/1996AF/Follansbee/1996FollansbeeIndex.html
Re: Glue / Drawbore follow up...
Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX
>Dean, want to take a crack at decoding Figure 8 (if you click on it, you can get an enlargement)? I'm trying to figure out what's what. My best guess is that the big center could be the tenon or the drawbore pin.
Pam
Re: Glue / Drawbore follow up...
Dean J in MN
>Pam --
Figure 8, with the text "Figure 8 Detail of a mortise-and-tenon joint on the chest illustrted in fig. 1. (Photo, gavin Ashworth.)?"
I'm not sure what you mean by 'big center thing?'
Or I am looking at the wrong photo.
-Dean
Re: Glue / Drawbore follow up...
Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX
>The big latticed piece of wood, looks like end grain. Underneath it is some lighter colored wood.
Also (I'm making my way through this article very slowly), in figure 11 is shown two riven pieces with a diagram for how the Savell shop cut stiles and most other shops cut them. Other shops apparently used a 5 sided stile to save wood. Do you know how a 5-sided stile would have been used? Where/how would they have positioned the fifth side?
Pam
Re: Glue / Drawbore follow up...
Warren in PA
>You are looking at the top of the stile (endgrain) in the center of the picture. At the bottom of the picture is a little bit of the front of the stile which has a delicate molding on it. At the top is a rail coming in. Apparently when they made stiles out of riven material they didn't always bother to make a complete rectangular cross section. As shown in fig 11, there could be an angular flat on the inside (hidden) corner of the rail, hence the fifth side.
Re: Glue / Drawbore follow up...
Dean J in MN
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The big latticed piece of wood, looks like end grain. Underneath it is some lighter colored wood.
I see Fig 8 as a top down view of the upper front right corner of the chest shown in Fig 9. The end grain is the top of the stile, with railes joined for the front and side of the case. The pins are visible on the front rail.
Also (I'm making my way through this article very slowly), in figure 11 is shown two riven pieces with a diagram for how the Savell shop cut stiles and most other shops cut them. Other shops apparently used a 5 sided stile to save wood. Do you know how a 5-sided stile would have been used? Where/how would they have positioned the fifth side?
Figure 23 shows a 5 sided piece in use. I can only guess what the typical position would be. I could see placing that face inward, or out depedning on what effect you wanted. Seems to work well in the example shown in Fig 23, the bottom of the chest.
-Dean