HappyMonkey/HMD WOODSHOP

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Awesome! How do the pieces join?

I puzzled over that for quite a while, over several iterations. I finalized (I think) the design just yesterday, on the way to the lumberyard.

The frame is extremely simple; four boards with a ledge on the inside, held together with bolts and cross-dowels, like this.

The middle rail is held in place with dowels in the ends going into the ledges.

The corners are the tricky part. They support all of the weight, but I wanted the feet to be recessed, to give it a bit of a "hovering" look, so they couldn't directly support the sides. Instead, the two halves of each foot will be held in the bottom of an L-shaped base via sliding dovetails. The mentioned base will be two ash boards lapped together.

Exactly how it works should become more obvious in time.