I use a fat dowel across the joint that doesn’t show. This is truly a
case where a picture is worth a 1000 words.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../46195258962/
That is an interesting joint for a box. Intriguing
Pictures on canvas and their frames don't see a lot of rough service though.
I have always just gone with glue and honest brads. Regular old school hammered
brads you get loose by the pound (if you can still get any fastener loose by the
pound anymore, except maybe drywall screws.)
There is something traditional about it. Neatly set brads done in a
workmanlike manner. They hold basically forever
or until you drop them at height.
And if you do that, you would be on your own anyway. The joints may be the
least of your problems!! haahaha
If its a super fancy picture I might set and fill the brads.
Learning to paint your way around trouble is important to a craftsman.... lol
You can match well enough.
I once even raised a curl (like those rare Stanley chisel holders do) and put my
brad in the divot, and then glued the curl back down. So its possible to do
that.
This is a monumental pain btw. No wonder the chisel holders are rare.
It better by damn be Leonardo!! haahahahah
So
The point of this post
Sorry Darrell. I do have to rag you about your poor vise.
But really its something for you.
A racking vise is not only bad for the vise, it holds your work poorly!! God
knows I did it for years.
You can work that way but its slippy and unsteady ready to fail at any second.
But if you break down and make a couple/three vise crutches...........(yeah I'm
sure there is a name for these spacers, but I don't remember it)
Takes practically seconds to make one once you determine to do it.
Anyway, when your vise has something to --really-- get its mouth on?
whoa!!
Hey the outside corner of the vise might as well be the very center over top
of the screw!
It bites!! Suddenly you are in a whole different league for workholding.
Some scraps of any wood or plywood etc, a piece of allthread
and............bam
Now, make it bright enough to see across the room, because you will
need that eventually. lol
I used 4, 3/4" strips and 3, 1/4" strips. It gives me lots of combinations
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/shop%20pix/visecrutch1.jpg
I guess they are about 4" X 1 1/4" maybe?? It was scrap off the floor I
just grabbed whatever was closest
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/shop%20pix/visecrutch2.jpg
And this is why you care.
This vise has got that little stick in a deathgrip!!
Its hanging off the corner of the vise, but its 100 times sturdier
clamped than it would be without the "crutch" (dammit I know there is a
better name for this) heeheh
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/shop%20pix/visecrutch3.jpg
yours Scott
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