Woodworking without pain (3)

Well things have progressed a bit further - even if quite slowly (somewhat similar progress to Gibbs' boat in NCIS). The legs are cut to length and I now have the rough finishing of the legs and rails done. They have been smoothed and rough sanded. I also used a 10mm round-over bit in the router to do the sides and bottoms of the legs, and a smaller one to do the lower edges of the rails. This picture shows the test assembled framework right-side up for the first time.


Don't worry about the legs appearing a bit off skew in the picture as its only held together by the friction in the mortice and tenon joints at this stage - they will be straight when glued and doweled.

The picture also clearly shows the empty outer mortices resulting from my design change. Currently I am making some short stub rails to make it look as though the rails do go all the way through. I have currently made 3 - the 4th's tenon is done and it just needs to be cut from the stock - which will leave 4 more to do. Then they will all need rough-finishing, rounding over etc before I do the permanent assembly.