The Centre Column continued

Below left: The completed grooves in the two halves of the central column. All being well, these two 1” wide by 1/2” deep grooves will form the desired 1” square hole. Below right: To make sure the two grooves lined up correctly during the gluing I put a couple of pins in the waste area and lopped off their heads. A quick squeeze with a clamp during the dry run and I was all set. I took care to mark where the pins were on the outside of the column...

Below left: Behold, the square hole! You can also see where I started ploughing the groove on the wrong face. Ooops. Still, I caught it in time - just. If it had been with the router, all would have been lost I think... Below right: Remember? You can never have too many clamps...

The glued-up column blank now needed to be turned to shape on the lathe. Left: In order to have somewhere for the lathe centres to grip, I planed up a pair of tapered softwood plugs to fit the holes.

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