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4 July 2021 at 2:50 pm
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This shouldn’t alter the fitting of the joint. You will though have the knife line appear in the final piece or having to plane it off afterwards.
What I do is skip the pencil line across the board, laying out the tails with long pencil lines. Then, I do the knife wall (with a cutting gauge) cross the board around the tails on the outside face and across the whole board on the inside face. I’ve previously laid out the pencil line a bit off from where the knife wall ended up being and it didn’t help, so I just don’t nowadays.