End grain to long grain

[Kurt]

I was wondering what everyone thought about end grain to long grain attachments such as in a little table where the aprons attach to the legs. I thought about using pocket holes for this instead of the traditional way of the mortise and tenon joint because mainly I have no way of making a mortise and tenon joint at this time. Properly done does anyone think this will be a problem? Attached is a picture of an example of what I'm talking about. any feed back would be appreciated

 

Thanks Kurt

[Kurt]

I was thinking mainly about screw tear out or loosening of the joint verses the traditional mortise and tenon joint due to seasonal changes and wood movement. I was wondering will the Kreg joint hold up over the years as good, better or not so good and I'm using them where I shouldn't be?

[ray vile]

I built a coffe table and end table using the kreg jig to connect the legs to the aprons I also added glue to the joints. so far so good and they are just as tight as when I built them

[John Schaben]

I think that would work. Alternatively though you could also use stopped dados in the legs.

[Jens Jensen]

I do lots of screen doors and this is exactly the way the rails /stiles are don never had a problemhere is what the door attachment looks so it is no different than table legs

[ray vile]

scroll down and check out the kreg skill building videos on the right side of the page, one of the videos there describes exactly what you want to do

[Kurt]

Its just a lot of old school guys are telling me that I'm making a mistake using pocket holes in this case. I added a drawing of the table that I'm gona make out of cherry I think. Its shown without the top to show the pocket holes and there locations. I think I have pretty much made up my mind and this is the way its going to me made.

[ray vile]

Thats great, thats the way I would do it, I could never use sketch up to make a drawing like that.

[Kurt]

If you have Sketchup and would like the drawings I made using pocket holes here is a link you can download them from. http://www.screencast.com/t/tgcKaNHZ9SX

 

If you want the ordinal plans here a link to those as well.http://www.srww.com/sketchup-furniture-plans.htm

 

Here a link to get Sketchup if you don't have it, its easy to learn! http://sketchup.google.com/

Thanks for the advise.