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Converting an old marble table to a coffee table. I haven't worked in my shop recently and forgot how much work even the most basic thing like cutting to length is. Anyways, I'm happy how things turned out.
If it is still possible, can you please post a picture of the joints from the perspective of the feet? Is it simply rectangular holes to fit the pegs (not sure if that's the correct English word)?
Unfortunately I didn't document that part of the process. But you figured it out correctly. It's two rectangular pockets that meet in the center of the leg. I drilled a bunch of holes using an 8mm drill bit and then chiseled out the rest. This process works quite well, even though it's not extremely precise, especially since I used pine.
From the last picture, it looks like legs can slide from the bottom direction onto the joint. So the legs don't have a "rectangular hole", but a "L-shaped slot from the top". I hope this description make sense.
No, It's the rectangular holes meeting in the middle.
That joinery is so clean!
Great work!
The pictures make things look better than they are ;) but thanks anyways!
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing!
How did you cut the right-angle groove in the top of the legs?
Hmmm.
Now that I think about it, you bundled 6 pieces together to make the rails. So you could make the legs by bundling 9 pieces together, and have 3 pieces cut short to allow that to slot in. If you did the final planing pass for every single piece at the same time--so they were all exactly the same size--you should get a very tight fit.