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Week 6 – Cross Brace

Posted on March 18, 2015December 1, 2019 by Iain 'Cutty' Carlin

Notch front X-brace

  • Use sliding bevel to set angles of cuts
  • Use scribe to measure 7.5mm from top and bottom of ‘A’ and ‘B’ braces
  • Notch for smaller braces into bottom of X-braces
    • Mark either side & cut with dovetail saw at 45 degrees then chisel out with 6mm chisel
  • Glue join of x-brace
  • Glue x-brace to front hold down with go-bars
  • Use wood slivers to get excess glue out of smaller brace cut-outs

 Back

  • With block plane chamfer off braces to a slope
  • Sand with 150 till tops are round
  • Clean off excess glue on back by sanding
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