Sellers Home Dressing Table Mirror: Episode 5
Posted 20 December 2023
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It’s the seemingly insignificant detail that gives our work that professional outcome. There are plenty of details covered in this episode to give us perfect book matching for the upstands and a mirror frame using mortise and tenons with four shoulders to each one of the tenons. The steps are simple, and the system produces an excellent outcome, concluding in the final glue-up of the main mirror base.
That smile on your face when that first tenon went in. Yeah, that’s a good feeling.
What is the instrumental piece at the end and who performed it, please?
yes, obvious Paul was having a lot of fun making these mortise and tenons
Paul suggested that the combo of pencil and mortise gauge instead of a marking gauge to set the boundaries of the mortise hole was good enough because he had taken the time to mill the wood as precisely as possible. What are the acceptable tolerances in thickness and width when “milling as precisely as possible”? When working on my own projects, I will try to get my matching dimensions to within a few thousandths of an inch. For example, the thickness along the two edges of a board I was hoping to plane to 1.25 inches might vary from 1.247 to 1.256 inches. Should I be shooting for greater accuracy?
That discrepancy is on the order of a thin plane shaving. I would call that very good match between the two myself.