Iron Bridge Design

Obey your …..
Just picked up this Kindt-Collins Master 30L 30” disc sander from a pattern shop. Super excited. Hydraulic lift and tilt on the table, integrated dust collection in the castings, all guards in place, no broken castings, everything is in really great shape. A few leaky hydraulic fittings, and plenty of greasy and dust to clean up, but overall a gem. This thing is a beast, can’t wait to get her up and running!

Find the seam.
I find myself using the jointer less and less to edge joint longer boards. This close-up of the glue line is the 2 hickory boards from the previous post, straight off of the slider with a 14” industrial rip blade. @ Westbrook, Connecticut

Rear stretcher joinery detail, still on “working model no. 3”. Not sure if on the final version I’m going to leave this as a wedged thru tenon, or just go with a stub tenon. Either way, happy for the progress and proof of concept.

Working out some joinery details for these dining chairs. Thru tenon close-up dry fit. Currently on “working model no. 3”. Can already see some more changes that need to happen.