Table making with Hounds-tooth demystification?
There are a couple of things about this table that are unusual and the joinery has a few features some might find unusual such as the combination of the housing dado, through tenon and protruding roundovers.
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Hi all,
Purely out of academic interest, what makes your rounded top-square peg different to the ones extensively used in the Greene & Greene furniture of the 19th & early 20th century?
Thanks.
Depends on how they are made. Many such features are not actually functional but ours are.
Hi Paul,
I see what you mean, I assume yours are a rounded over drawbore peg, whereas the rounded over “buttons” used in G&G style are only decorative as far as I can tell.
Many thanks, Stephen.
I do like the round overs you put on a lot of the through tenons. I’m making an oak picture frame and I’m undecided yet if I should try for the same effect. I think it could look nice.
As far as the hound’s tooth dove tail. Apart from the aesthetics, is there a reason to do them like that?
This version of the dovetail joint was developed for added strength to the dovetail joint and not decoration.