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Part 5. Making the side frames.
The “back” frame consists of a single piece of timber cut at both ends to 5 degrees to suit the angle of the leg. Domino cuts were set on the width of the rail/apron and were cut as per the ends, that is, by adding a further 4mm to the cut depth for the legs.
For the “front”, two rails, one for the top and one for the bottom of the drawer space were cut with a 5 degree angle at both ends. They were 30x30mm each and the length was to fit the gap between legs. Each rail was dominoed to the leg, one at the top, the other at the appropriate height for the bottom of the drawers. The drawer faces were cut from one piece of timber.
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A mortise was created in the center of the rails to accommodate a muntin. At this stage mortises also needed to be cut into the bottom rail of the front and at a corresponding height on the back skirt to accommodate the runners.
The runners themselves are made of Red Gum and are 50mm wide by 20mm deep for the ends and 100mm wide for the center.
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Part 6. Making and positioning the lower shelf.
A shelf of approximately ½ of the total table width was slotted into the lower rails of each end frame. To do this I used three boards of Red Gum, trimmed to square with the TS75, then glued together with 6x40 Dominoes.
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To make the dadoes in each end frame, I used the Domino set at an appropriate cut height (20mm in this case) and then marked the start and stop position as I would with a through mortise. I set the depth to 15mm and cut the first rout. I then increased the cut height by 10mm and routed again, giving a groove of 20mm depth. The boards then fitted into these.
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