Popular Woodworking 2000-06 № 115, страница 40
Dress up your dining room with this Southern delicacy that was used to serve drinks after a hunt. Breeches and jodhpurs are optional. My dad has been making this six-legged huntboard for a number of years now, and it's always sold well at the furniture shows we attend. One year he built one for a woman who requested glass knobs on the piece. As most business people know, the customer is always right. Though we weren't sure the glass knobs were right for this piece, we took that huntboard with us to a show to solicit sales anyway. Our first sale that day was for the huntboard. But there was one request: "Could you put some different handles on it?" I'm happy to present here a classic six-legged hunt-board with the handles we usually put on the piece. Quick Tapers for the Legs The joinery on the huntboard is predominantly mortise and tenon, with all the rails and panels attached to the legs with tenons. The inner partitions are dadoed into the solid back and tenoned into the center legs. Start construction by cutting the legs to size according to the Schedule of Materials. Each leg is tapered to 1" at the floor, starting 16" down from the top of the leg. The four corner legs are tapered on the two inside edges, but just to make it so you can't use one tapering jig setup (and because it's historically correct) the two middle legs are tapered on the back and both sides. I use a simple tapering jig on my table saw for the four corner legs. Rather by Glen Huey Glen Huey builds custom furniture in his shop in Middletown, Ohio, for Malcolm L. Huey & Sons and is a contributing editor for Popular Woodworking. See his work at www.hueyfurniture.com |
