I’m well along with a maple husky farm/harvest table with turned legs. It’s now time to tackle the breadboard ends for the top. Fearing a catastrophic mistake at this stage, I’m unsettled with the most accurate and safest means of routing the tenons on the ends of the 38” x 60” x 1” thick top. I’m torn between guiding the router with a straight edge clamped (as parallel as possible to the ends) and using a router-attached edge guide, using the ends themselves as the reference. I plan to make one very thin initial scoring cut to better ensure a clean edge between the top and the breadboards, following up with the deeper cuts, resulting in a 3/8”+ tenon to which the stopped breadboard mortises can be cut—leaving some tenon thickness for fine tuning.
I’ll be grateful for any thoughts or advice. Again, I’m most concerned about getting the top’s tenon shoulders straight, square and clean. I can’t bear the thought of screwingup the top (now).
Thanks and sorry for the long post.
Ed
I’ll be grateful for any thoughts or advice. Again, I’m most concerned about getting the top’s tenon shoulders straight, square and clean. I can’t bear the thought of screwingup the top (now).
Thanks and sorry for the long post.
Ed