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Ha! You’ve clearly never seen any of my drawings… 😂
You’ll be fine, just trim the tenon down slowly, and by equal amounts on both sides, testing each time.
You should be taking off whispy amounts from each side when you get close.
Depending on what wood you are using you will also get a certain amount of wood compression each time you try to fit the tenon, so when you get your first really tight fit, take it out and put it in again, it might not be as tight the second time.
This is especially true of softwood such as pine.
If you go too far and the tenon is loose, just cut a piece of wood the same size as the tenon and glue it on to the tenon (same both sides) and then repeat the trimming process.
Cheers
Darren.
- This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Darren.