Jtomwoods

I am in what Bob would call the "thinking stage" before I begin a cutting stage...

I am making a headboard using 1 1/2 " thick oak for rails and stiles and 3/4 " oak pw for panels. The legs are 3" by 3".

I have two rails, one is 76" long by 3 1/2" wide and the other is 76" long by 7" wide (both are 1 1/2" thick). With their size, these guys are bulky and heavy. The two stiles are 14" long by 3 1/2" wide, relatively little guys in this scheme.

I need to plow 3/4" wide by 3/8" deep grooves on all of these for the pw panels. I have thought about table router, portable router, and table saw with dado blade.

If anyone has previous experience doing this type of work, which tool or tools would you use to make the grooves for the pw?

Thanks.

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bobj3

HI Jtomwoods

Sounds like a good job for the plunge router with a home made saddle jig..


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Jtomwoods

Bob,

Thanks for the idea. It makes a lot of sense and looks like it will provide stability as well. I knew you would come through.

While I have you, I also need to make tenons on the ends of the long rails that are 3/4" thick with a length of 1 1/2". This also sounds like a portable router job as well. Do you have any jig ideas for this task?

Thanks -- Tom

bobj3

HI Tom

I think I would do it the same way with the same jig ,with floating type tenons , just need to use the router table and make some tenons with a round over bit and some hardwood....cut them off to the right size and glue and glamp them it,,because they are so big I would put 1/4" dowels pins in to lock them in place..one would do the trick but 2 would look better I think... in each floating tenon joint....


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Jtomwoods

Bob,

The rails are so long (76") and I am so short 65" that I'd have to use a step ladder to mortise the ends of the rails. I don't think I can make them safety to go with floating tenons.

Tom

bobj3

Hi Tom

You don't need a step ladder hahahahaha

JUst clamp the boards up in your bench vise/WorkMate at about a 30 deg.angle, screw in a stop block on the jig so it will stop right where you want it to and then just plunge in and let the jig and the mass of the router do the rest of the work for you...almost like saying drop and slot..

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