Popular Woodworking 2000-04 № 114, страница 29
Built to hold hoses, store garden tools and to last for years. Bench o utdoor Arts & Crafts furniture was almost always made from wicker or hickory sticks, so when it came to designing a garden bench in that style I had almost no examples to turn to. However, after collecting and building this type of furniture for almost a decade, I knew one thing had to be true: it would have to be built to last. Fact is, I could have glued and screwed this whole thing together in a few hours. But because this bench was built for my sister-in-law as a gift for her new home (and because I don't want to be haunted by the ghost of Gustav Stickley), I decided to take the most traditional approach I could. That meant pegged mortise-and-tenon joints. All Tenons, All the Time Begin by cutting all your parts to size and laying out the V^'-thick x 2"-wide x l"-long mortises on the four legs. Each -wide slat in the lower case gets four tenons — that's two on each end. If I'd put only one wide tenon on each end, I would have had to remove too much material in the legs for the mortises. The detail drawing on the next page shows you how the mortises and tenons are spaced. Now cut your mor- by Christopher Schwarz |
