Ok whats the trick to this one

There's a show on Saturday TV with a redhead guy (Roy Underhill) who works with only 'period' tools and does everything by hand (can't think of the show's name). He made one in a past episode although not as pretty as this one.

Pete

IIRC -- the surgeon was the kids mom! ;-)

I thought it was the kid's father? Oh wait, it was Roy Underhill's trick on The Woodwright's Shop.

John

It's been posted before, previously there wasn't the "window" in the tails. My best guess is the light colored piece is not solid in the joint. There's just a thin strip at the top which would allow it to flex enough to slip over the tails.

The addition of the window would appear to disprove this, but the piece in the window isn't necessarily connected to the rest of it.

-Leuf

The Woodwright Shop

Dave

This is a better way to post URL's:

JES

Sorry- no strips, no fancy key things, just basic jointery and a little bit of chemistry, biology, and physics.

I've got a couple in process, but am having a bit of trouble with lack of proper tools to make the handcut dovetails.

e-mail me offline for the answer if you really want it

or even:

er

Doesn't even seem to be a mystery to me, look at the second and third pictures, you can plainly see the seams where the wood was glued together.

Pretty sure that's just the grain. It doesn't say it this time but the last time it came up the auction stated 2 pieces and no hidden splits.

Google archive of the group's responses from last time:

Just found out today that my munged email address was over-munged and I forgot a letter in the darn thing. It has been repaired. Apologies to any who attempted to email me for the solution and got a bounce. Mea maxima culpa.

Working on building a couple of these, will have some pics maybe by Sunday night.

Sorry again about the bad address, vic

er

The point was that the foolproof way to post URL's is to add around the link.

JES

If you want to point to a specific item on eBay, this is even better: