When I first started working on the second saw donkey tenons I was doubtful that I would finish it tonight. Thursday night I only had to saw and fit 3 tenons but tonight I had four to do. Yesterday I sawed and fitted each tenon individually. Tonight I tried production mode.
The first batter did the sawing of all the shoulders. Batting second sawed out the cheeks. Batting third was cleaning up the tenons to the gauge lines. Batting clean up was the fitting and labeling. I didn't use only the chisel for the clean up. For this round the game plan was using shoulder and block planes to remove the majority of waste followed up by the final cleaning pass with the chisel. This worked well and was much quicker than doing it solely with the chisel.
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| layout for the shoulders |
The layout for the shoulders was done with the same foot. I used that to mark all four shoulders and I then ran a knife line 360 on each one. All four of the knife lines met so I know I'm square.
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| this isn't tic tac toe |
I had marked the cheeks with an X so I would know where to run the mortise gauge. It wasn't supposed to be run on the X and I caught this on my final check. I sawed this one first so I wouldn't forget which layout lines to use. I did the layout so the planer snipe was in the cheek removal.
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| last cheek sawn out |
I sawed a bit fatter than yesterday but using the planes knocked it down quickly. I trimmed all the tenons down to the gauge lines before I tried to fit the first one to a mortise.
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| got it right |
Two uprights with offset tenons - just what the doctor ordered.
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| ends need some work |
The ends on both of the feet mortises were stepped similar to this one. Some were worse than others and I had to remove it. The walls are ok but the tenons won't fit end to end.
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| coarse rasp |
This rasp giggled at the end grain. 5-6 swipes and the step was gone and ends were flat.
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| proud on this side |
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| flush on this side |
This tenon in another mortise is almost flush on both sides. This stock hasn't stopped moving on me yet. After this is glued up I'll plane the leg foot junction flush on the proud side.
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| labels |
Besides telling me what tenon and mortise go together, they also tell me how the tenon face and mortise walls go together too.
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| so I don't do this |
This is the mortise tenon connection that is proud on one side and flush on the other. Put together this way it is proud on both sides.
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| stepped ends on the top too |
Fixed this with the coarse rasp too.
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| smoothed it out |
There isn't any need for this to be perfect. It's a shop project and end doesn't have any glue strength anyways.
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| done with the dry fit |
I had to see how the height felt with a board across them. I think this height is going to be ok. I didn't saw it but I held it down and mimicked sawing it That action felt good too.
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| made it and only went a few minutes over |
Tomorrow I'll do the draw boring after I decide what to use for pegs. And since I'm doing that I can start right in on the X braces after that is done.
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