sxlalan
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Hopefully this will be the last question required to finish off the cot I am building :roll: (thanks for everyone’s help/patience!). I have the basic cot finished now and just need to attach a hardwood frame around the top (primarily just for looks). The frame consists of 60mm x 21mm lengths of beech which will run around the entire top of the cot (roughly 1400mm x 700mm). The frame needs to be connected to the cot itself somehow, and in the absence of a biscuit cutter I was contemplating a spline joint. The cot itself is made of poplar and the pieces in question (the rails along the sides of the cot and the top of the head/footboards) are also 60x21mm so the connection will be something like this
I am thinking of using my router to cut a 6mm wide, 10mm deep groove along each piece and inserting a matching piece of ply as the spline. Does this sound reasonable? The beech and the poplar are joined long grain to long grain so do I have to worry about expansion or can I get away with a spline glued along the whole length of each piece? Is 10 mm a reasonable depth and am I OK to put a single long spline in (eg for the whole length of the joint) or am I better off with multiple small splines?
Thanks for your help ... I'll post some photos when it's done!
Alan
I am thinking of using my router to cut a 6mm wide, 10mm deep groove along each piece and inserting a matching piece of ply as the spline. Does this sound reasonable? The beech and the poplar are joined long grain to long grain so do I have to worry about expansion or can I get away with a spline glued along the whole length of each piece? Is 10 mm a reasonable depth and am I OK to put a single long spline in (eg for the whole length of the joint) or am I better off with multiple small splines?
Thanks for your help ... I'll post some photos when it's done!
Alan