WOODWORKING QUIZ for 3 OCT 04

[Ralph Jones]

Good Evening Friends,
Joinery can be a tricky operation at times and when you drill a mortise into a leg of a chair where the drill bit actually breaks through the side of the first mortise making an L mortise in the leg.

With out cutting one of the tenons short on one of the rails to be installed, how can you cut them so you can get the full benefit of both mortise depths?

Respectfully,

[Dan]

Mitre the ends of the tenons?

[bitingmidge]

I'd cut the legs off at the hole, and turn it into a stool.

P

[Ralph Jones]

Good Evening Friends,
The first poster had the correct answer of mitering the tenons.
I have also seen in furniture that I would be restoring the tenons would be half lapped or one tenon would have a mortise in it, while the adjoining tenon had a tenon on the tenon to go through the hole in the first tenon.

Thank you for your support.

Respectfully,