Finally some glue up!
Posted by JeffMonday night, I only had a little bit of time. So, I thought I’d get the legs glued up. And of course everything takes longer than I expect it to. I had to cut the notches out of the center boards that will act as the mortises. With no dado blade, cutting those notches took a while. I only got one of the legs glued together.
Turns out that takes a bit of coordination! One clamp to line up the three pieces at one end, then another to provide clamping pressure. Then move to the other end and do the same thing. Then a c-clamp in the center. What I shouldn’t have done was left it set for almost 48 hours. The squeeze out was a bear!
Tonight I was able to get the other three glued up. One at a time. Dinner while the first one set up. Dressing my card scraper-from-old-saw-plate while the second one set up. Sizing and routing the top rails for the head board and foot board while the third one set up. They just need to be cut to length now.
The not-quite-finished card scraper takes care of squeeze-out quite nicely!
Here’s the top rails.
And this is the little jig I made to dress the edges of my card scraper.
That was it for tonight. Not too bad. At least I can see some things coming together!
Stay sharp!
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