Stop Splits with a Wooden Key
Furnished content.
Most repairs to furniture during the construction process are a drag because I am kicking myself for making an error in the first place. Not so when adding wooden keys to a slab tabletop. Big wood tends to split. And left unchecked, the split can continue to open during the seasonal expansion and contraction cycle. The traditional fix is a wooden key that looks like two dovetails kissing. Or a […]The post Stop Splits with a Wooden Key appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Upsetting Upsets
Furnished content.
Wood, being a natural product, is not without it’s defects. Many are obvious and some (such as the upset above) can be harder to detect. I’ve always known them to be called an “upset” but “thunder shakes” and “compression failure” are also terms used to describe it. The thing I hate about upsets is how hard they can be to detect, especially when the wood is rough-sawn. Most often I […]The post Upsetting ‘Upsets’ appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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