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What a great bunch of stuff! Excellent.:thumbup1:

 

I am intrigued by this joint though...

 

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Why is the mortice cut so deep that the tenons meet & is also open at the top? {No haunch.} unless its for a reason I can see , I would have thought that radicaly reduced the strength of the leg. frame joint area,, particularly if base of leg is pushed ,knocked etc??

 

Good to see someone else who enjoys making stuff as well!

 

Spiral

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i see your point but it could be a problem couldn't it.

 

it should be strong enough as that is the front leg of the benches and the leg is 4" square and the rails 4"x2". there is a shoulder the other side of the joint that you cant see but i didn't think it would need it on the top as 1" of material then 1" of tenon and 2" of square material is damned strong...

 

i put a large thick screw through once glued to sure it up in to both tenons going from the inside of the framework so both heads are visible in the 2" square bit.

 

 

if it was a thinner bit of wood it may be a problem doing this sort of joint but being 4" (well 95mm after planing) even if you dropped the this bench i'd be surprised if it failed in anyway.

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Sure large timbers are always stronger, just going on tradition more than anything else. Hadn't realised they were quite that size either!

 

Either way its all good stuff.

 

The headboard & tailboard on my first & only bed were just planked tennons, {1 inch thick though in Douglass fir, into 3 inch pitch pine.} They Didn't even have a shoulder!

 

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just been going through some pics on my computer and found the process of me turning the porch posts that you can see in my avatar.

 

 

they were 9" square and 48" long, all planed up by hand with a right angle and and electric hand planer, no heavy machinery was used until i turned it.

 

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