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The Sara-style quilt rack that is made for a 'quilting' friend is finally finished. Dyed with Lockwood water dye Light Golden Oak (her choice) and four coats of clear satin spray polyurethane.

Designed on SketchUp and built on the ShopSmith - except for using my Rigid oscillating sander on the templates and finish sanding the two legs taped together. Even used SS in the under table mode to rout the legs to final shape of the template. The leg segments are doweled and pegged on the insides of the legs.

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I made a template on ½ BB Ply by blowing up the SketchUp files to approximately true size. Cut them and taped together to get the full-size leg.

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After the leg and stretcher templates were made and QS white oak boards were sized, I laid out the leg template on them to get the angles. Since my SS jointer is good for 4 inches, I had to cut segments of the legs. To get the mating angles to match perfectly, I cut both pieces at the same time.

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The tenons cutting was the easiest part of the job.

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And finally, since the bottom stretchers could not be attached with pre-cut dowel holes (I just could not figure out the angles on curved pieces!), I bored both the stretcher and the leg at the same time. The dowel shows but only on the bottom of the stretcher where only the mice will normally see them. But I don't think they will mind.

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This was very challenging but satisfying when done. But I will NOT do this again until I find someone around here with a 6 inch jointer - or until I figure out (or find) a design for a jointer sled for the planer.

Forrest

Excellent work, very creative solutions.

Excellent indeed!

I do not unnerstan how a 6" jointer would be advantageous with that project.

Great Job!

John

Because of the limited (4") widths of the boards, I could not cut the front legs from one board because the curvature was too great. So the front leg is 2 pieces that had to mate perfectly on a curved surface. That is why I cut both pieces at the same time. I also had to cut the very top separate from the back legs for the same reason.

With a 6" jointer the front leg would be one piece and the back leg and top would be one piece. I would have had to mate on two pieces on each leg instead of the four that were required here for each leg. I could get 6 ½ wide boards at Austin.

Bill Mayo has given me the idea to try to find a Total Shop jointer since it fits the SS and is 6" wide.

Forrest

If you are thinking about a non-Shopsmith jointer to get 6 inch capacity have you considered going with a stand-alone? You will get longer infeed and outfeed tables. Plus, you won't have to wrestle a 6 inch jointer onto the Shopsmith. I don't own a Shopsmith jointer but I have hefted one. Pretty heavy. Have to assume a 6 inch clone jointer would be heavier.

The other thought is if you will seldom need the capacity over 4 inches and have a planer, build a jointer sled for it. You can find plans on the internet and FWW has published an article on it. That will allow you to joint up to the width of your planer.

Al

Really nice build! Great post too - good narrative with plenty of pics.

I would love to have a standalone jointer of 6, even more, inches.

However, my 'shop' is where my inspiration parks her car at night and that stand-alone - added to the other things in my 'shop' would prohibit that parking. My SS and SPTs roll up against and hang on a wall making enough room.

So, I will keep looking for a Total Shop jointer. I have an offer in now to someone who is, at least, in SoCal but it would cause him to part-out his Total Shop. May not get a response.

Forrest

Edit: Thanks for the reminder Al. I had forgotten about that FWW article. I'm printing it out now and will see if I can use it.