Dog on it

[Jeff L Headley]

Dog on it! Dreaming of scraps left upon this table.

[Jeff L Headley]

Dog on it! If a leaf falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it does it make a sound?

[Jeff L Headley]

Dog on it! Go dog go! Things are looking up for building Gothic chairs. Copying chairs my Grandfather made.

[Jeff L Headley]

Dog on it! Don't be a cow ard. Get off the fence and build the piece of your dreams. Please don't take "a fence" over this posting. I promise not to rail over the criticism. I have herd worse. In between my "O" fencive posts would be a good time to stand up to ad your thoughts.  

[msiemsen]

Jeff,
Reminds me of the 3 bulls that were talking in the pasture together. The first bull, being interested in finance, wanted to become a bull on Wall Street. The second bull was interested in religion and wanted to be a Papal Bull. The third bull, being more practical, just wanted to stay in the pasture for heifer and heifer.

[Jeff L Headley]

Dog on it! No back legs to reley upon with this Philadelphia card table. The back legs with rail will be nailed then clintched over.

[Jeff L Headley]

Dog on it! Drawer front Ruff out

[Jeff L Headley]

Dog on it! A true cat call. How would you hold down a serpentine veneered surface during glue up.

[Jeff L Headley]

Dog on it! Please no cats were harmed during this clamp up. Dog on it!

[HSteier]

Dog on it.
Tell me about that clamp up.
It looks like shag carpet, covered with multiple seperate batten, pressesd with flat scraps.
Why not use the sawn blank from the drawer front? Not thick enough?

Howard Steier

[Jeff L Headley]

Howard, Thank you for the question, Dog on it! The drawer front is a single stacked poplar secondary substrate with no backer boards. Yes there is a rug involved. The calls are segmented (slightly angled) pieces of poplar layed in a row and then attached together. These pieces will conform to most serpentine shapes with padding ( of your choice) in between as a call.  

[Jeff L Headley]

Howard, Dog on it! Here is the polpar segmented drawer fronts stacked and squared up and ready to cover with what primary wood might be desired.

[HSteier]

Thanks.
I get it.
Why not saw the drawer front out of one piece? Is there too much potential for movement?
Also, how are the cauls attached together?

Howard Steier

[wrduffield]

Jeff, Dog on it! I think I'm barking up the same tree as Howard.

I understand the need to brick up aprons on demiluna tables and half round card tables, for example, for structural and stability reasons. It seems like it might be false economy to use this technique for this serpentine drawer front. Couldn't you saw a drawer front from a single piece of 8/4 or 10/4 quarter sawn poplar, thus saving some sawing time, the glue-up time, and avoiding the additional wear on your spoke shave or spindle sander from shaping glue joints. I suppose I'm asking where you find the break-even point between material costs and labor costs for these drawer fronts? I realize that more wood is wasted if the drawer fronts are sawn from a single block, and 10/4 qs is more expensive per bf than 4/4 flat sawn, but in this case, the scrap is less than 2 bf. 

William Duffield

[Jeff L Headley]

Stacking the pieces for this serpentine drawer front is a much stronger method than just cutting the drawer front out of a solid  piece of wood. This is also how most of the originals I have seen or worked with were done. The grain when cutting out a solid board for the serpentine drawer front could fracture across the grain also when veneering or overlaying the movement of the wood needs to be considered. The stacked method doesn't move as much. Moisture and heat is this methods enemy. Dog on it! Once stacked each layer with its own grain orientation helps hold the piece it is attached to in alignment. Quartersawn pieces work better.  I use seat webbing to hold the calls together.