Compound angled tenons
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I’m trying to copy a bar stool in our kitchen that has the legs splayed at a 7 degree bevel and a 5 degree miter. I plan on doing through tenons in the seat that are cut perpendicular in the seat. I made a miter box to cut the ends of the legs at 5 and 7 degrees.
My question is how to mark the tenon widths. I understand the tenons will be cut perpendicular to the shoulder angle, but how to mark them with a gauge has me puzzled. The dual marking gauge can’t be used to mark the tenon equidistance from the sides since the tenon will be at an angle. I thought about using the gauge to place dots to center the tenon starting point, then use the bevel to pencil in the lines at the appropriate angle. Doesn’t sound super accurate, but if I’m on the right track let me know. Hope that wasn’t too convoluted.10 November 2015 at 11:34 am #132246If I have a difficult joint, I lay it out full scale on paper. In this case, you may have to do 2 views to get both angles.
10 November 2015 at 5:33 pm #132253Rodney, if you have access to Paul’s dining chair videos, he shows how to lay out angled tenons. Like Brett says above, Paul uses a full scale drawing to find the angle to use on a sliding bevel gauge. He uses the bevel gauge to draw the angle on the workpiece for one side (cheek) of the tenon and draws the other side of the tenon using a chisel of the correct width to get the tenon width from the first line.
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