Writing Desk with Only Hand Tools: Part 2, Tapering the Legs and Mortise and Tenon Joinery

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3 жыл бұрын

In this video, I make the mortise/tenon joints and taper the legs.
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I am making a simple writing desk for my son's birthday. He doesn't really need one, but I promised my daughter I'd make her a vanity table/desk for her birthday, so that meant my son would have to have one, too. (FYI, the project was completed a little while ago, so it's already on my Instagram, see below)
As usual, this is a 100% hand tools project, not even a battery powered drill.
This will be a series, but not an extensive one. In this first part, I rough cut the main case components: the 4 legs and 3 main rails.
If there is interest, I'll make some sketchup plans, but in reality, it's not very necessary.
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Andrew

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@MixingGBP 2 жыл бұрын

Nice work tapering the legs. For my writing desk, I am debating on making a tapering jig for my table saw, but you convinced me to try my no. 5 1/2 plane instead.

@athmostafa2462 3 жыл бұрын

Nicely done .👍

@TheHandToolery 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@brianeaton7832 3 жыл бұрын

I read somewhere the rule of thumb for tenon's is 1/3 the thickness of the material, so a 1/4 inch probably would have been fine. I made a desk similar to this about a year ago and used 1/4 inch tenon's. Recently, when moving the desk as we were getting new flooring I ran a leg into a wall on accident and it split the leg but the tenon was still intact. Thankfully an easy split to reglue!

@TheHandToolery 3 жыл бұрын

That’s a strong tenon! I had heard the 1/3 rule and thought maybe I could stretch it here because of the leg thickness being 1.5”, so effectively 1/3 of the leg. Well... I guess I’ll say that it wasn’t the best! Now that I think about it, the larger or thicker the stock, maybe this rule isn’t so applicable. Anyway, won’t do it this way again!

@scottb.2022 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like your intersecting mortises turned out fine. Another way of dealing with this is to cut a piece of scrap to fill the first mortise while cutting the second.

@TheHandToolery 3 жыл бұрын

Great idea!

@athmostafa2462 3 жыл бұрын

Good idea both for a solution , I didn't know any of them , thanks guys for the information 👌. But need to know just chamfer one tenon or both ?? 🤔

@scottb.2022 3 жыл бұрын

@@athmostafa2462 Best practice is to chamfer both of the tenons.

@athmostafa2462 3 жыл бұрын

@@scottb.2022 Well , that's interesting to make !