Sellers home Corner Desk: Episode 3
Posted 24 January 2024
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The desk frames are all mortise and tenoned together, with infill slats and plywood panels closing in the open spaces. Fitting the slats involves shoulders being only an inch or so apart, so all of the shoulders must be perfectly aligned to ensure that one doesn’t keep the others apart from perfect seating. To create the angled pedestals undergirding the desktop, we use a few secret fixings that will never be seen. Yet they speed up the process of making. By the end of this episode, we have all the ingredients for supporting the curved desktop.
Hello,
As usual, Paul video are so interesting and so much informative. But in this one (because English is not my mother tongue) there is one sentence that I didn’t manage to decipher. At 13:45 he said something like “When you’r out you catch the …”. Can someone tel me what is the word I am missing? Thank you for your help
Yves
“When you’re out, you catch the ball.”
Thanks!
What no. Plough plane is Paul using?
The big one looks like a record no. 044 and the small one is a record no. 043… Me think 🙂
Haunched Mortise and Tenon Joints – when to use them and when not? and What’s their purpose?
I’ve been enjoying Paul’s Master Classes for years now… Never asked this question. I seem to recall my Grandfather (who first introduced me to hand tool wood working in the 1960s) said he used them when the Mortise was too close to the end to provide strength if the joint received racking pressure. Thoughts?
In addition to leaving more wood at the end of the stile for strength, The haunch also helps keep the stile and rail in the same plane during twisting forces.
I think Paul once said something about a structural benefit if only I could remember what it was! Seems like a cosmetic benefit is that if the stile shrinks over time, the haunch could prevent the resulting gap at the tenon shoulder from being full door thickness.