I have the plans, the wood, the tools, and have watched the Greg Paolini video. We’re talking about the American Furniture Design plan.
Am wondering about the m&t joints. The plans do not show me the thickness of the tenons, nor do they show me, for sure, that the joints center on the legs.
In the Paolini video, where he is showing making the cuts and joining the parts, I can swear he has the front and rear stretchers offset toward the outside faces of legs. This offset makes tenon interference less.
So. Thickness of tenons? I’m thinking of 7/16″ for the 1-1/4″ stretchers coming into legs, and 5/16″ for the 3/4″ side slats.
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Contacting Greg directly would probably yield non-guessing answers much faster. He seems to be a nice fellow.
Best wishes,
Metod
I just sent Greg an email through his website
And I asked him about those details.
Then I looked at his whole site, and came across something very interesting. He shows a number of variations of the chair, but they all, except one, have this characteristic: side rails are under the stretchers in the way they join to legs.
With stretchers coming into legs at a different height location than the rails, there is no tenon interference.
He must have said, after he made the American Furniture design for the magazine article and the workshop video, that there was something not so hot about the design.
In the attached image, you can see a part of my Sketchup model, rendered in x-ray, and how the tenons interfere. Greg shows himself making the relief cut in the rear stretcher's tenon to solve the issue.
Gene, I am guessing Gregory's bow arm and the flat arm chairs are the same below the arm rest. On the flat arm, I have all tenons 1/4 in. thick and the mortises on the legs centered. Gregory would be able to tell you for sure.
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