Hi Gents,
This is my first time to post in the projects section so please don't be too harsh...I am relatively new to woodworking although my Dad has always been into it..
A friend of the wifes who is into horses asked me to make a mounting block for the stable yard where she keeps her horses...
I figured I would take the challenge and this is what I came up with....Dimensions were specified by her so I didn't have much say in it...
Its 28 inches high, 14 inches wide and each step is about 18 inches long...(Roughly)
I have just used B&Q 2x3 ish (47x75mm) pressure treated wood for the frame and some decking board for the top.
Now I am not properly trained in woodwork..never really did it at school and I was a bit of a M&T psycho on this project as there are 28 in total..
I use a simple router jig for cutting the mortices and I cut the tenons on the bandsaw.
All glued up and painted with timbercare or some variant...
I think it turned out pretty good and it looks the part..
I had to buy myself an extra long straight fluted kitchen fitter router bit to rout the 2 inch deep mortices but thats not a problem...The joints were nice and tight fitting altough I did find that it took me a fiar amount of time getting all the tenons to fit nice and snug...I am not the quickest so it took me 2 whole days to mark out, cut all the wood and do all the mortices and tenons then I glued up in 3 stages..
I didn't want the end grain in contact with the damp ground even though it is pressure treated but the block will be outside all year and all weather so I got a shed load of rubber door stops cheap of e bay...cut 2/3 off on the bandsaw and screwed 2 on each of the 6 legs...They really work a treat and it is surprisingly stable considering the slightly narrow dimension..
Oh yeah - I squared all the routed mortices as I find that gives a better fit than trying to round the tenons...
OK so now I will try and attach the pictures to this post...
I would gladly welcome constructive comments..like I say, I am new to this and have a lot to learn...I realise that M&T's are probably overkill for this project but I liked to challenge myself...I also realise that if I had made the lower cross piece in one length of wood on each side I could have got rid of 4 M&T's and used a couple of halving joints instead...But I can do M&T quicker than halving until I practice some more...
I obviously used waterproof glue and am hoping there is no reason for it to fail..
Thanks for looking!
Cheers
Timmo[/img]
This is my first time to post in the projects section so please don't be too harsh...I am relatively new to woodworking although my Dad has always been into it..
A friend of the wifes who is into horses asked me to make a mounting block for the stable yard where she keeps her horses...
I figured I would take the challenge and this is what I came up with....Dimensions were specified by her so I didn't have much say in it...
Its 28 inches high, 14 inches wide and each step is about 18 inches long...(Roughly)
I have just used B&Q 2x3 ish (47x75mm) pressure treated wood for the frame and some decking board for the top.
Now I am not properly trained in woodwork..never really did it at school and I was a bit of a M&T psycho on this project as there are 28 in total..
I use a simple router jig for cutting the mortices and I cut the tenons on the bandsaw.
All glued up and painted with timbercare or some variant...
I think it turned out pretty good and it looks the part..
I had to buy myself an extra long straight fluted kitchen fitter router bit to rout the 2 inch deep mortices but thats not a problem...The joints were nice and tight fitting altough I did find that it took me a fiar amount of time getting all the tenons to fit nice and snug...I am not the quickest so it took me 2 whole days to mark out, cut all the wood and do all the mortices and tenons then I glued up in 3 stages..
I didn't want the end grain in contact with the damp ground even though it is pressure treated but the block will be outside all year and all weather so I got a shed load of rubber door stops cheap of e bay...cut 2/3 off on the bandsaw and screwed 2 on each of the 6 legs...They really work a treat and it is surprisingly stable considering the slightly narrow dimension..
Oh yeah - I squared all the routed mortices as I find that gives a better fit than trying to round the tenons...
OK so now I will try and attach the pictures to this post...
I would gladly welcome constructive comments..like I say, I am new to this and have a lot to learn...I realise that M&T's are probably overkill for this project but I liked to challenge myself...I also realise that if I had made the lower cross piece in one length of wood on each side I could have got rid of 4 M&T's and used a couple of halving joints instead...But I can do M&T quicker than halving until I practice some more...
I obviously used waterproof glue and am hoping there is no reason for it to fail..
Thanks for looking!
Cheers
Timmo[/img]