Exploding Furniture, Varnish Seepage, Dring Fresh Cut Lumber and MORE!!!
About this episode
The episode discusses woodworking questions related to furniture design, specifically addressing concerns about wood movement and joinery techniques.
This Episodes Questions: Brians Questions:Have been listening to your podcast for awhile now and the more I listen to more questions come to mind. Here is my current one for a walnut waterfall bench I’m working on. The dimensions are approx 58”L x 18”W x 16”D. How should I join a shelf to this bench where the grain flows continuously from the legs up through the bench top? The shelf will also be a glued up panel with the grain running the same direction as the bench top. If I attach the shelf to the inside faces of the legs using a mortise and tenon joint, do I need to account for wood movement? The legs, benchtop, and shelf are all 1.75” thick. I would assume that given they’re all the same thickness and technically the wood grain is in the same direction as the legs, just perpendicular, it would expand and contract together, and I could just glue the tenon. That said I don’t want to guess and hearing Guy talk about furniture exploding has me concerned. If wood movement is a concern then what’s the correct way to account for this movement? Should it be treated like a breadboard end with dowels through the tenons, installed through the bottom of the legs (the shelf sits 2 inches…
Topics covered
- furniture design
- wood movement
- joinery techniques
- walnut waterfall bench
- mortise and tenon joint
- floating tenons
- woodworking concerns
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