05-11-2020, 02:40 PM
First you get some IPE scraps from a local deck & dock company
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Carefully pick through the stack of offcuts, and cut your parts.
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Cut the tenons.
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If you don't own a mortising machine, and the thought of chiseling out all those mortises in rock hard IPE sounds like drudgery, you cheat.
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Glue up overnight and sand.
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Finish with an exterior oil and call it done.
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Carefully pick through the stack of offcuts, and cut your parts.
[attachment=26920]
Cut the tenons.
[attachment=26921]
If you don't own a mortising machine, and the thought of chiseling out all those mortises in rock hard IPE sounds like drudgery, you cheat.
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Glue up overnight and sand.
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Finish with an exterior oil and call it done.
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Telling a man he has too many tools,
is like telling a woman she has too many shoes.
is like telling a woman she has too many shoes.