Large joins help??

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Hi guys I'm new to woodcraft and after seeing these stools for sale yesterday my wife has asked if I can make one for us. How is the join made? I've seen that joint made on a small scale with a router but these are huge. Many thanks, oh and that stool was £280!!

[niftysteve]

id have a guess on a saw bench or large band saw or even a skil saw with the cutting bed angle set

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Ah ha so it's more measuring and being accurate than letting the 'jig' do the work.

[agg221]

For speed, a circular saw. Without one, it's easy enough to do this with a mallet and chisel, just takes a little longer - mark out a cardboard template, mark the two straight lines on the top first, line up the template on the ends and start chiselling away - a couple of hours' work that way.

 

Alec

[robbo 110]

a radial arm saw would do those cuts very quickly.....but,,looking at the state of the joinery on the stool i think id have a go with a small carving bar & a tube of no nails!!!!!!!

[Pete Bannister]

The gappy joint is probably the result of drying shrinkage. On drying, almost all species shrink mostly in the tangential plane ( i.e. at right angles to the radial plane). The least drying shrinkage occurs longitudinally. If you look at the gappy joint, tangential shrinkage would account for it (rather than inaccurate joinery!)

[TrollSpiel]

cor, u lot make things difficult ! Circ saw at an angle, then kerf it, knock the slithers out with a nice sharp 25mm chisel.

 

or if your'e lucky and have a nice dado bench like me, whizzo, 10 mins.

Edited November 3, 2011 by TrollSpiel