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Dual personality
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A hard-working table does double duty in the garden
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By Paul Lewis; Photography by Mark Burstyn; Illustration by Paul Lewis
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4. To make the connection at each rail and leg, line up one leg and one apron piece flat on your workbench as they will end up in the finished table. Make a small line across both pieces centred on the end of the apron (see illustration). This line is the reference mark to line up the biscuit joiner. Mark all the legs and rails this way, then use the biscuit joiner to plunge the slots on all the rails. Adjust the fence of the biscuit joiner by 1⁄8" and plunge the slots in the legs. Test-fit the pieces by assembling the rails and legs together without glue. If satisfied, disassemble pieces and put back together again, using glue in all of the slots. The glue will swell the biscuits slightly once they're in their slots, making an incredibly strong joint. If you are using a dowel, measure and mark where the dowels will go at each rail and leg intersection and drill a hole to match the diameter of the dowel at each location. Test-fit as above, then permanently assemble the pieces by adding glue to the joints. Whether you use biscuits or dowels, clamp the legs and rails together (for several hours at least) while the glue dries.
5. Cut the bottom panel from a piece of 1⁄4"-thick plywood. It's supported on eight cleats fastened to the inside face of the rails after the leg assembly is dry (two cleats on each rail). Notch the corners of the bottom to make room for the leg corners.
6. Once the leg assembly is dry, attach two bottom cleats flush with the bottom edge of each rail, two centimetres from each leg using glue and a couple of 11⁄4" galvanized finishing nails per cleat.
7. Next, add the hinges. Attach the strap hinges to the top of the back rail first, driving screws through the square side of the hinges.
Click here for the rest of the steps, and to see how to get the tic tac top!
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