Help with console table design/joinery
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I am in the planning stages of a console table I’ll be making with hand tool methods. Essentially it will be a cabinet on top of long legs. Picture of a design reference is attached. I am planning 2 drawers and square tapered legs, possibly splayed.
I am having trouble figuring out how to attach the top case to the legs with traditional joinery. I do not want a square apron. I would prefer no apron, but have been considering a crossed apron. In other words, an X shape under the cabinet (board from back left leg to front right, and back right to front left, to make an X under the cabinet). However with this type of apron, turn buttons would be seen if I used them to attach the cabinet to the leg structure. How can I go about attaching the cabinet to the legs for this project? Either without any apron or with a crossed apron as described above. Any advice would be helpful.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.28 October 2016 at 1:58 am #141961Will the bottom of the cabinet be flat? Could a crossed apron be glued to the bottom?
28 October 2016 at 4:10 pm #141975Can the crossed apron be tenoned in blind from the inside corner of each leg?
Yes I was planning on tenoning the crossed apron to the legs. Just stumped how to attach the legs and crossed apron to the flat underside of the cabinet.
I could attach the legs to the bottom of the cabinet with through tenons as mentioned, similar to the foot stool project. I guess I could also fit the crossed apron into dados on the underside of the cabinet though this would be difficult I think. Would like to avoid simply gluing and screwing if possible.
Any other suggestions?
28 October 2016 at 11:13 pm #141991How about two rails, one for the left and one for the right legs. They could be incorporated into the bottom frame and you only have to make sure that the bottoms of the drawers are high enough to allow for the extra thickness. The rails could be as wide as the drawer insides and considerably thicker than the frame around the drawers which were not possible with crossrails. Fill up with panels if you like a closed bottom. I think, this should physically do the job and look very neat – but I am no expert at all, it might be complete nonsense.
Dieter
PS: The legs would be tenoned into the rails of course.
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