Breakfast table webbing

Now that the legs were completed, I wanted an interesting way to increase their rigidity and add some much-needed intrigue. So i came up with these shaped webbing. These again presented an interesting challenge, like the legs the question of grain direction vs orientation had to be considered.

I decided to again make them out of two sections, this way i could again orient all cuts based on a single cut.

The legs of the table rotated at 90 degrees from each other, but because of the angle the legs are cut at the webbing is splayed forward. As anyone who has worked with segmented bowls and pyramids knows this complicated the cutting operations. See splayed miters

To keep the different elements consistent, again all angle are based of the fist. In onder to facilitate setting hard stops for the angles I made two angle extra fences out of some extruded aluminium profiles by milling out two slots and drilling a hole in the center.

Fabricating mirrored parts is often challenging, even though modeling them is straightforward. When cutting the angles, care must be taken to determine when you can no longer simply flip the part. To streamline the process, I squared up the block on the thicknesser, the using one of the long edges (2 below) I cut all the mating angles (1 below) at the same time.

after cutting this angle on the table saw, I already had the first of the compound angles on my long edge (2) and could shave the second compound angle on the planer using the edge as a guide.

After both sides were cut I Cut the top angle in relation to the compound edge by squaring the top up against the blade and setting the fence.

Then by setting up the fence square to each other, I can use the top edge as an endstop to cut the ends on the right and left of the middle section of the fence.

Two of the webs were not glued together but remained split to allow the legs of the table to be disassembled and connected together, using a domino and a brass screw plate to locate them.