I am trying to come up with a way to join plywood sides to four corner posts to make a small TV stand. I am using quilted maple for the posts and maple plywood for the three sides. (the front will be open for components)
I was thinking that the best way to use the 3/4 quilted maple was to miter at 45 then spline the two to mak a 90 post and then glue MDF on the inside of the 90 to make a square post. From this I would do tongue and groove joinery to attach the ply wood sides.
Will this work? or will the movement of the quilted maple fight against the MDF. I am planning on posts that are no more than 2 inches square so I don;t think there will be too much movement.
Thanks to any who have suggestions.
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I think you have it sorted out very well. Go for it the way you have described.
Don
The way I think this is being described you'll only have the curly maple on two sides of the square post. That in and of itself is OK ... except in the front it'll be "open". That implies to me that folks who look at the cabinet will see the inside of two posts and see maple which transitions to MDF. Not a look that I think will be considered attractive.
What I did to create quarter sawn legs for a Mission table I built was something you might be able to use. I took two sides, cut 45s, and biscuit jointed them together. Using a clamping jig I was able to get a very tight and invisible glue-line. After the glue dried I put the glue-up into a custom sled for my planer (the sled was about 3 inches thick plywood, 8 feet long, with a groove cut out that was exactly 90 degrees, with the point of the groove at the "bottom of the trough". If you run the glue-up through the planer it'll cut the two sides at exactly 45 degrees, and they'll be perfectly flat, and you can take two of these and glue them together for a perfect leg. (I use biscuits here also, mostly for registration purposes.)
I think you'll find this is very quick and painless. One other thing you can do before planing the glue-up is to glue in a piece of scrap into the interior of the glue-up so the resulting piece is solid.
John
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