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Non-mortising hinges #31300 • $5.79 a pair.

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Here's why: Your mortising bit (or Forstner) makes a slot of a consistent width (unlike when you make a mortise using a chisel and mallet). That means you can depend on every mortise to be exactly as wide as your first one. So if you cut your tenons on the rails first (with the help of a piece of scrap with a mortise in it), you can simply lay the tenon on the stile where it needs to go and use the tenon like a ruler to mark the starting

and ending point of the mortise.

This procedure saves you a step because you don't have to get out your combination square to figure out where your shoulders will go on the stiles.

For most cabinet doors I like to cut tenons that are 1" long and have ¹/z" shoulders. The rule of thumb is to make your tenons one-half the thickness of your stock. So for ³/4" stock your tenons should be ³/s" thick.

I cut my tenons on the table saw using a dado stack. Here's how. First get a piece of scrap. Go to your mortiser or drill press and make a long mortise in that scrap using a ³/8" bit. You use this piece of scrap to check the thickness of your tenons. Make the mortise in the scrap about 1¹/i6" deep. Install your dado stack in your saw. The number of chippers isn't critical. Make the stack ⁵/8"- or ^3/4"-wide. Now raise the dado stack so it's ³/l6" high.

Set your table saw's fence so

that the distance from the leftmost tooth to the fence is 1". Get out your miter gauge and make sure it's set perfectly square. Put your rail flat down on the table of the saw. Define each side of the tenon in two or three passes as shown in the photos.

Hold the work firmly and keep your fingers away from the blade. Flip the rail over and repeat these cuts on the other side. If you have trouble with tearout, try making the first cut on the tenon with the tenon against the fence. It

Top nailed into ¹/4" x ³/4" dado

6"

Face frame dimensions

1/2"

2 1/2'^

r,l >

12 ¹/2 "

2 ¹/2 "

3" radius

All

4"

44"

Case dimensions

/V

Face frame dimensions

3/4"

"TT7T 2 ¹/2 "

18 ¹/2 "

3 ¹/2 " T⁷/a"

3 3/8"

12 ¹/2"

47 ¹/4"

:3/4"

26"

3/4" 4 ¹/2 "

80 ¹/2 "

3/4" Case dimensions

38 ¹/2 "

Jj32h2 1/2" Face frame dimensions

80 ¹/2"

¹/2 "

41 ¹/2 "

Elevation

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52 Popular Woodworking February 2002