modern furniture
today i'm building a mitered modern andwaterfall bench. the bench is going to be 18 inches wide when finished. i wanted to limit the number of boards i had to glue up so there wouldn't be alot of seams so i picked out boards that we're a minimum of 9 inches wide. once i got the board's home i took some time to skip plane them to clean them up andget them as flat as i could these boards are 12 feet long and i kept them thefull length during all the milling operations to ensure that grain wouldmatch on the mitered corner
it was a bit of a workout handling all that eightquarter lumber i placed roller stands on the front andback of the jointer. i set them just a little bit lower than the table of thejointer. i don't want the wood to register off the rollers. they're therejust in case the long boards get away from you and i have something to assistin catching them. the one behind their jointer also gives me a place to restthe heavy boards while i get them in place. when i set up my shop i set up allthe stationary tools so they face the bay door, this way when i have projectslike this i can open the door and have plenty of room to joint, plane, and riplong boards.
when doing the glue up i use domino's tohelp keep the board's aligned i was also careful with my domino layout to be sure i would not put one where the legs are going to be mitered. one of the domino mortises was a littlebit off left to right but i didn't notice it until after the glue had beenspread so there's a little bit more work to get it together than necessary. i cut the pieces apart using my track saw to miter the legs. i double-checked i had the right leg on the right end and laidout for some domino's. i use the largest domino's that would fit and place thempretty close together to be sure i had a
good strong joint. then i use a little caglue on some pine blocks to help clamp the pieces together making sure themiter was being closed tight on both top and bottom i use shims under the pieces to helpalign the legs flush to the top. m it was basically my third hand while gettingeverything clamped up. a light tap with a mallet and chiselwas all that was needed to pop the glue blocks off. then i just scraped andsanded the excess ca glue away. then for the finish i use four coats ofwipe on satin poly