Advice on a joint please...

Steve · 2007-08-08T21:46:44+00:00

Hi All,I'm new here, and new to woodworking in general. My first real projectis under way and I'll have a few questions as I go, so here's thefirst...My project is a music stand for myself. Store bought ones just don't doit for me and I love natural wood anyway. For an idea of the kind ofthing I'm making, I found an awesome website with quality that I won'teven try to accomplish this first time out: first question I have is how to join the bottom "music rest" portionto the back piece? The strongest joint that I can come up with is asliding dovetail with the slot in the back piece and the tail making upthe shelf, but I'm worried about how large of a bit to use. The wooditself is 3/4" thick (both pieces), so is the dovetail going to simplysnap off when I put a heavy music book on it?I guess the second question would be fitting it together with glue in thejoint without it binding or cracking. I figure epoxy will give me thetime to slide everything together (27" long), but I'm looking for anyadvice as I only want to do it once :)If my description isn't clear, I'll post a quick rendering of what I havein mind.TIASteve

Aug 08, 2007 21 Replies

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Steve 18 years ago

Hi "Toller",

Could you elaborate on this for me please? Others have posted that it's a decent and possibly over engineered joint, you're the first to indicate that it's weaker, and as a newbie, I want to make sure it's going to stand up to the years of (ab)use that it's intended for.

Steve

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Steve 18 years ago

Hi Father Haskell,

Thanks for that, I hadn't thought of keeping steady movement going to help it from locking up.

Steve

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