Mission Table: Creating the Side Apron and Bracket Extrusions

Today’s parts and the top are the last of the major components that need to be directly modeled. Most he rest of this piece is patterned from here…

If you’ve read the previous articles in this series, you know that whenever possible I create my new sketch planes on sketch geometry that resides on the Layout (plan view) or other skeletal geometry, and this part of the model is no exception.

The side stretcher below was, again, created from a sketch that is shared with the tenon. In the image, the tenon is shown being extruded, and if enlarged, you can see that the Extents is set to ‘To’, and a point where the front apron’s  tenon and the side apron’s tenon meet is being selected as the stopping point.

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As you can see pretty clearly in the image below, most if not all of this model is created by either directly using, or projecting elements of, the early sketch geometry – the skeleton.

 

The decorative bracket’s profile was projected from the first elevation sketch (above), and the tenon geometry came from a slightly later sketch. The holes seen are clearance holes for some screws (located in the bracket mortise) that will be used to attach the apron later.

 

 

 

 

Although there is little lateral expansion with rift and quartered white oak, I nevertheless design for expansion anyway because table top fasteners are a quick, secure way to do it regardless of expansion concerns. I use biscuit slots instead of a saw kerf these days.

 

The plane for the biscuit slot elevation was created in the standard fashion using the skeletal sketches, and the plane for the cutter was created at the end of one of the layout lines contained in said elevation sketch. The cut is just a circle that is 4” in diam. And penetrates the wood deep enough to create a 2 ½” wide slot at the face (set for a #20 biscuit)…

 

…the biscuit slots are then patterned along the apron, which was laid out in the elevation sketch shown below. There are three cuts that use the Apron_Biscuit_Spacing parameter created while sketching the elevation …

 

The next post will include the corner brace, the top, and all of the mirroring & whatnot that were performed to complete the skeletal portion of this model . It may take two posts, but I’ll try to jamb it into one. At any rate, I hope to have this series wrapped up by the end of the weekend as the iDrawer project is backed up behind it. There is also the Make Components phase, hardware, and possibly other stuff to cover, but I promise to skip over the more mundane junk  … till next time…

 

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