My FDIL (future daughter in law) wants me to build a support understructure (table) for a marble tabletop she has. The tabletop will be 36x72. She wants completely straight, square legs (think 4x4 post) and simple rails. I'm befuddled on the best way to go about ruining valuable wood on this thing.
I'm thinking that the legs will be built with a "core + wrap" method, using a 2x2 glueup core and facing it with mitered material to make a 3.5" square leg.
My first inclination is to M/T the rails into the legs. But I'm waffling on how to cut the tenons in an almost 6' long piece of material. Tenoning jig is out, obviously.
I considered loose tenons, but I've never held my router horizontally (to mortise into the endgrain of the rail) while running and don't plan to start now. Nor have I routed while standing on a ladder. Ain't gonna try that, either.
I guess the router with perhaps a rabbeting bit is one way to go, but I fear that absent some sort of elaborate setup jig to guarantee repeat cuttings, I would end up with seriously mismatched tenons.
Maybe the bandsaw is the right way to fly with this. Fence + stop?
Who has done this, and let me hear all about the DAMHIKT tips.
Thank you for your input.
I'm thinking that the legs will be built with a "core + wrap" method, using a 2x2 glueup core and facing it with mitered material to make a 3.5" square leg.
My first inclination is to M/T the rails into the legs. But I'm waffling on how to cut the tenons in an almost 6' long piece of material. Tenoning jig is out, obviously.
I considered loose tenons, but I've never held my router horizontally (to mortise into the endgrain of the rail) while running and don't plan to start now. Nor have I routed while standing on a ladder. Ain't gonna try that, either.
I guess the router with perhaps a rabbeting bit is one way to go, but I fear that absent some sort of elaborate setup jig to guarantee repeat cuttings, I would end up with seriously mismatched tenons.
Maybe the bandsaw is the right way to fly with this. Fence + stop?
Who has done this, and let me hear all about the DAMHIKT tips.
Thank you for your input.