The first piece of furniture ever

[lrogers]

Nice work grandpa!

[John Hunter]

Very nice.

[Pappy]

Now that is the way to recycle wood!

[ironhat]

Looks good to me, Art! You chose some difficult elements for yourfirst furniture project.

[master53yoda]

thanks everyone for your comments and help in how to do somethings. I'm finding that one of the side things with MS is that it is harder for me to shift directions in a process that isn't working then earlier in my life. Like not thinking about reversing which part of the jig goes against the fence.

[cobob]

So how did you make all the mortices??? hand tools, dedicated morticer, drill press add-on, something else? I have yet to try it...but someday

[master53yoda]

So how did you make all the mortices??? hand tools, dedicated morticer, drill press add-on, something else? I have yet to try it...but someday

I did all the slat mortises with my router table using the jig shown earlier for the repeat mortises. I used a 3/8 spiral cut bit and dealt with the slats as if they were 1 1/4" x 3/8 round edge tenons. I rounded the slats with a 1/8" radius bit. I have done my tenons this way for a while because of not liking the idea of a DP tenoning jig and no room for a dedicated one.