C & S,
Thanks much for the ideas. The pictures were great and really help me
shore up my plans. I have enough of an idea now to at least go buy the
wood (yeah, it'll probably cost more than if I just bought the darned thing
from Pottery Barn!). Appreciate the help! This will be my biggest piece
of "fine" furniture to date and I'm really looking forward to it!
Cheers,
cc

"C & S" wrote in message
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Lot's of ways to skin this cat.

My preference is to build the webs, sides, and back as separate assemblies
and then put them all together.

I've posted tow examples to ABPW

The first examble is done with a a stopped dado (1/8" deep) cut into the
side assemblies. I pocket holed from the underside.

In the second example I build the web with tennons sticking into the fron
legs. The rear of the we is supported by a dado cut in the intermediate
stiles of the rear panel assembly. It coulsdhave been done with mortises
in
the rear, but it was a really wide piece and I wanted support in the
middle.

Note that the top web is a special case. It's set in with a dovetail from
the top.

-Steve