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Tagged: children's toys mortise and tenon though tenon

  • This topic has 3 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 8 years, 2 months ago by Betzalel.
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  • Betzalel
    5 July 2015 at 1:13 pm #128227

    Hi,
    I need some advice on how to lay out this project. I was thinking of copying this design for someone that asked me to. I am however thinking of using through mortise and tenons for the steps. I’m just not sure on how to lay this mortises out, since its so far from the edge.
    Any advice?
    Tks
    https://goo.gl/photos/orLG4niH3DHEvBtD7
    https://goo.gl/photos/irPn9UnrNhv4Sva89

    ps hand cutting

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    Matt McGrane
    6 July 2015 at 2:26 am #128238

    From the pictures, it looks like the upper and lower mortises are close enough to the edges that you can use a marking/mortising gauge and square. And I’m sure you know to lay out and cut the bottom ones before making the curves. But I guess you’re thinking about the steps that are midway across the width of the side pieces. You could try using a simple marking (not mortise) gauge to scribe your layout lines, as the mortise gauge my not have enough length to reach the center of that board. Make sure to start the lines in pencil and finish up with a gauge or knife.

    If nothing else will work for you, maybe you could make a special tool for the purpose. A marking gauge is nothing more than a beam with a pin (or two) in it to scratch the wood and a fence to set the distance of the pin(s) from the edge. You could maybe put two nails in a piece of wood – the two nails set apart from each other at the same distance as the wodth of the chisel you will use to cut the mortise. Then attach another piece of wood to that one as a fence, placing it precisely at the proper distance from the pins to set them in the right location. Not sure if my words adequately relayed my thinking here.

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    Greg Merritt
    6 July 2015 at 3:28 am #128242

    A combination square would work well. You don’t need to mark both sides of the mortise. Just Mark one side and rely on your chisel width.

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    Betzalel
    6 July 2015 at 5:07 pm #128257

    I didn’t think of the try square, I think it will work fine, its just the right length!
    Thumbs up!

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