Making tabletop buttons in two pieces?

jvollmer | Posted in General Discussion on October 18, 2022 07:30am

Hello,
working on a kitchen table build and have decided I’d like to try and use buttons to secure it. However, I was trying to think of ways to efficiently make a lot of them and had an idea; why not glue a thinner but longer piece to a thicker and shorter piece to form the tongue that sticks out on the buttons? My thinking was that you could still keep the same grain direction the glue bond would be plenty strong

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_mj_ | Oct 18, 2022 07:39am | #1
That'll work, but I don't see a savings in time or effort over cutting them out of solid stock. Go for it.
Deleted | Oct 18, 2022 08:13am | #2
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john_c2 | Oct 18, 2022 09:46am | #3
Sure it will work. But it's a ton of time, effort, and mess.

Make a series of dados on a board, rip it in 3/4" inch strips, crosscut the buttons. I could have made a few dozen in the time it took to write this.
chuckvandyck | Oct 18, 2022 10:51am | #4
Good practice sawing to a line as well if that is of interest.
DRBWWing | Oct 18, 2022 01:05pm | #5
If you have a nice wide (flat) board, dados go quickly.
jvollmer | Oct 19, 2022 05:22pm | #6
Thanks for the input everyone, my problem has been the lack of wide stock to go about button making the usual way; figured this might be a good way to do it with thin scraps I have leftover
_mj_ | Oct 19, 2022 05:37pm | #7
Sometime you can let it be about the journey, after all you'll be going slower than you might go for what... probably under an hour?

A contractor pal of mine would shrug and say... "Sure, whatever's hardest!".