Comments

1. 
   dstenson | Nov 11, 2008 05:30pm | #1

   Beautiful and original. I toured your site and you have some stunning pieces in there.

2. 
   Andy Pitts | Nov 12, 2008 12:21am | #2

   dstenson, thanks for the complement! I see you are from Victoria. We were there last year for the Furniture Society conference. We loved it! What a great place to live!

3. 
   a123 | Nov 12, 2008 10:21pm | #3

   Very nice blog regarding the construction. You put a lot of work into it. Great piece. You put a lot of work into it too. I haven't gotten through the blog yet, but I will. Question, you set up the curved legs in order to mark them for dowels using a dowel center. You now have the location, but not the angle. I messed this up a time or two and found that if the angle of a dowel isn't exactly correct you've got a problem. Given the curve of the leg and the fact that every dowel is angled differently how did you accurately drill the holes?

4. 
   Andy Pitts | Nov 12, 2008 11:11pm | #4

   Artis,

   The curved legs were a challenge with the dowel holes. I guess I could have made an angled guide block for each dust divider, but if I remember correctly, what I actually did was this. With the legs and dust panels laid up in the correct orientations for using the dowel centers, I marked a pencil line parallel to the dust divider along the front of the front curved leg and back of the back curved leg. Then, I could place the leg in my bench vice and eyeball the drill bit parallel to the line. Not too exact, but it worked. The dowels are a little forgiving!

   Thanks for the comment on the writeup. I'm glad you find it useful. And thanks for the nice comment on the piece!