On 3/20/2012 8:46 AM, dadiOH wrote:
"Greg wrote in message
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On Mar 19, 10:16 pm, tiredofspamnospam.nospam.com wrote:
Please take these constructively. I'm sure you learned a lot during this
build.

1. Your Splines grain is going in the wrong direction. You want this to
provide extra support, so you set the grain to go 90 degrees to what you
have them.

Hadn't thought of that. I can see now how the strength of the spline
would be greater "your" way, but I think it should be adequate in this
application as is.
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Just out of curiosity, why did you decide to use splines rather than cut
tongues on the ends of the rails?

I felt that it was more likely to fit within my skill set and tool
complement. For instance, there's only one "height" adjustment to be
made at the router table (for the slot cutter). My inexperience, coupled
with a pretty cheesy router table setup, might have made a precision
match between the tongue and groove difficult.

Having said that, I think I might go the T & G route the next time.