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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 563686, member: 5066&quot;]Is sewing table from Boston veneer or solid wood construction? It looks veneered, It makes a difference as you would not see construction details &amp; joinery if veneer is applied over piece from a photo.</p><p>I have maybe 7-8 first half 19th century stands, some single drawer some 2 drawer, some are drawbore joints &amp; some glued and, i would say without much doubt, the pinned stands are earlier &amp; hand made and glued ones are later and machine made.&nbsp; Naturally there can always be exceptions in old furniture but generally speaking, you just don&#039;t have the close tolerances required for gluing a mortise that is chopped with a wood chisel. There is a reason those drawbore joints have survived since the 16th century &amp; are just as tight today as the day the joiner drove the wood pins. That all changed in the 1840s when steam powered machines took over all that &amp; glue replaced wood pins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah! lol, I am gonna mention that to Peter Follasnsby, tighten up that sloppy joinery! It&#039;s an example Jeff, where he is showing a drawbore cutaway.</p><p>Here is a 5 min video of him making a wainscot chair &amp; chopping a mortise in part</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]dmpYvgwZNZk[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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