I've been engaged in building a church lectern for my friend's startup, rather small church. Tried making a technical drawing in Bryce, and something got translated wrong, and now I have something way too huge, starting to look more like an altar rather than a lectern!
I did these "sketches" in Bryce to get an idea for proportions. I like what happened here. Problem is, in this sketch, the 4 main posts are 44 inches high, and my real life ones are 33, which is really the best height. However, I made the 3 raised panels to the specs in the drawing - 33" tall by 30" wide - way too big. The thing is way too big, when I tried to visualize it by laying out the posts and panels. Looks like I'll have to take a good 8 inches off the width, and nearly as much on the height, then run those two edges thru the shaper again. Oh well; like the barber says, "I take always take more off, but I can't put it back on.".
This is why I'm learning SketchUp, so I can nail down the measurements!
Side note: while I was breaking down the stock for this project, unbeknownst to me, something was amiss in my planer. After putting lots of pieces thru, i noticed I was getting a wedge shape coming out the other side! I thought the problem was that I was not jointing the face flat enough…but that was not it. I had never taken out the knives on the planer to sharpen (or align) them, so I did. Apparently, the knives were out of alignment! After sharpening and aligning, worked fine, but I lost a lot of time - and stock - due to this problem!
I'm making this Lectern (see other blog entries), and I've run up a little problem. The lectern has, of course, the top table, and I'm aware how to control expansion with that.
However, I have two other shelves, one just below the top, and one near the bottom. My issue is, how do I allow expansion (which means cutting the board short width-wise) and still have a finished look? I'm guessing I can somehow affix it at the front (the top of the photo) and do a couple of metal table clips adjacent to that fixation…but what about the gaps on the sides (left and right in photo)? I guess I could use some molding to hide it, but molding isn't really part of the Mission-style, to the best of my knowledge.
I think I would have run a dado around for it to fit in. Like this. If it's too late for that, I guess a strip of molding is the only option I can think of.
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