This should give you a better idea of how these brackets work. With one
screwed into the base-top and the other into the chair bottom, they hold the
two pieces together very well.
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| Finishing The Tray
Now it's time to finish the tray. Here I'm
laying out the 15" radius, but the two side pieces are not glued on yet.
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I'm getting ready to mill a step into the sides that will
be glued to the tray later. And I have an unconventional setup here. I'm using the
vise to hold my work piece, which is normal. However, I'm not able to
machine my work piece with the vise closed because the movable jaw is in the
way. But as you can see I'm using clamps on either end to hold down
my work piece (arrows). Once I have my outer clamps tightened down, I
opened the vise jaw a few inches to make room for machining.
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This should clear things up of what I'm doing. This worked
out great and was quick and easy to do. However, this is an
unconventional type of setup.
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Now you can see the cuts I did to the side pieces a little better. I'm gluing the
sides to the center piece below.
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The next day I sanded my work piece which didn't take long with my
duel orbital sander.
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Once I had the tray sanded, I needed to make a small
cleanup cut along this back surface because the side pieces that I glued
on were not
exactly in the right spot. I planed on this because things move slightly
while gluing. Plus this went quickly and I was happy with the results.
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I used my bandsaw to cut the radius and then used my belt sander and
worked up to the line. Then I used my sanding block to finish it with, just
like the other pieces.
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Here I'm drilling some pivot holes so the tray can move.
This is another odd setup as some of my work piece is under the mill
table. On the other hand, this setup would look much the same if I were using
a drill press. This worked great and again I used my new vise for this
setup.
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