Hi all,
Got a design question. My wife and I have been talking about building a new coffee table and came up with the following design, made from maple, walnut and cherry.
I like the thought of having the solid maple/cherry panel within a mitered walnut frame. My thought was to have the ~15" panel float (unglued) via tongue/ groove along the length leaving an expansion gap within the groove for the cross-grain movement. Will this work or will a gap develop between the panel and the walnut frame or worse yet, have those mitered joints split open. I was thinking of using breadboard ends, glued/pegged in the center only to allow for movement of the panel. Note that the frame would use ~6" wide boards and of course the miters would be splined for stability.
The alternative is just not to have a mitered frame, but include the walnut in the "panel" and have breadboard-style ends.
Haven't thought too much about the apron/ leg attachment, other than the apron would be attached to the top via cabinet-maker buttons, inset a couple of inches from the edges i.e. attached to the walnut frame.
Thanks in advance for any comments/ suggestions.
Sam
Got a design question. My wife and I have been talking about building a new coffee table and came up with the following design, made from maple, walnut and cherry.
I like the thought of having the solid maple/cherry panel within a mitered walnut frame. My thought was to have the ~15" panel float (unglued) via tongue/ groove along the length leaving an expansion gap within the groove for the cross-grain movement. Will this work or will a gap develop between the panel and the walnut frame or worse yet, have those mitered joints split open. I was thinking of using breadboard ends, glued/pegged in the center only to allow for movement of the panel. Note that the frame would use ~6" wide boards and of course the miters would be splined for stability.
The alternative is just not to have a mitered frame, but include the walnut in the "panel" and have breadboard-style ends.
Haven't thought too much about the apron/ leg attachment, other than the apron would be attached to the top via cabinet-maker buttons, inset a couple of inches from the edges i.e. attached to the walnut frame.
Thanks in advance for any comments/ suggestions.
Sam