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Thin veneers tend to buckle when clamped. Gluing them in a stack applies even pressure to keep them flat.

mortiser, but on the second mortise, the machine broke down. Faced with a deadline, I switched to plan B and made these mortises with my plunge router.

The through mortises that pierce the lower front and back rails are at an angle to the face, and I'd planned to use an angled block on the bed of the mortiser to make them. Instead, I used a similar setup on the drill press. I removed most of the waste with a Forstner bit, then cleaned up the openings with chisels and rasps.

I made the straight and standard tenons on the ends of the lower rails on the table saw. I used a miter gauge to cut the tenon

shoulders, and a jig that rides on the fence to cut the cheeks.

I considered making the angled cuts on the remaining tenons on the table saw, but realized each angled setup would need to be done twice: One to the right and one to the left. I decided to make a guide block that could be reversed for my handsaw, as seen in the photos at bottom left and center.

This was a quick and accurate method, and I was able to make all four saw cuts for each joint in sequence. This helped to keep the parts in order, and prevented making any miscuts by machine.

I dry-fitted the front and back legs with the top rails, and checked

An angled block of scrap wood tilts the leg to cut A tapered block under the workpiece makes the an angled mortise parallel to the top of the leg. holes at the correct angle.

After squaring the corners of the mortise with a chisel, I use a rasp to finish smoothing the inside of the angled joint.

The quick and easy way to make the angled cuts for the through tenons is with a handsaw, guided by an angled block of wood.

These angled shoulder cuts would be tricky to make with power tools.

After fitting the through tenon, the location of the second mortise is laid out, keeping the back of the hole just behind the face of the rail.

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Popular Woodworking November 2006