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Welcome to our part three of our End Table Project. Today, we are actually at a big-, really big step. We are going to be gluing some stuff together. So, let us takes a look here. All right now, all of my leg blanks are paired with a specific stretcher, and they are numbered, so that I cannot forget them. Now, all we need to do is add a little bit of glue to the joint, push it all the way down, make sure everything is lined up perfectly and let these guys dry overnight. And, at that point, we could worry about cutting the shape up.
For now, notice, everything that is oversized and everything is in its rough shape. Okay, because we need the sculpt this to look like one piece. If we try to sculpt it ahead of time and glue it together and trying to get everything to fit perfectly it is just never going to happen. We put everything together rough like this and worry about cutting it out afterwards.
Now, you will notice that when this goes together, the glue makes the joints swell, which means something that was a really snagged fit without a clue becomes extremely snug with glue. Okay, so you may need to finesse it in to place a little bit. If you like to have with the hammer should be all, you know, our deadly hammer is all you should really have to do.
Now it is also important to note here, you got to know, exactly, how far down this goes. Now, I have all of my joints milled so that they stop at a certain point. But I want to double check right at the top where my pencil line is from my template, I want to make sure that the distance from that pencil line to the top of this piece, the amount of over hang that I have is the same on all the pieces. And, that means that it will register the same in the center piece as well.
Now, we could be pretty messy here too, because a lot of this glue, even if it squeezes out, a lot of this material is going to be carved the way. It is not too concern about being super neat like I might in another project. All right, there is a little cohesion. Okay, that is good.
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Now, before we proceed with cutting out the actual shape of our legs here, we have to kind of look at the angle of the structure piece. If you look at our template, I did not really account for that at the time I was really focused on the shape of this leg. So, the angle on the template is not exactly the same as what we have on our work pieces, okay. So, what I have decided to do was take one of my work piece blanks, put it down on a sheet of a quarter inch, Baltic birch ply, and I wanted to make a new template. One that allows me to work out this aspect this detail of this piece, okay. I laid this down traced around so I could see what I have to work with. And then I, literally, at that point, went back to this guy, traced on the curve at the leg and then redrew by hand, I have decided, what was the angle that I am going for? How much curvature do I want in here, just to make this look, you know, as good as it can.
So, this is what I came up with. The leg itself, exactly, the same, okay. But, you could see how different the angle of attack is, and the curvature. This is now the way I want it to look. Okay, if you can imagine, for those coming in together, meeting in the middle, she looked pretty cool. We will find out.
Using a marker, I traced the shape of the leg onto my leg blanks. Then, I used the ban saw to cut just outside of the line. No more than eight of an inch for the edge. Now, if you happen to have a really wide blade that can handle those curves, you can always try this method. Notice the series of perpendicular cuts that I have already made? Those will free up the back of the blade and allow you to make the necessary turns.
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