Cutting the shoulders on the table saw is easy if your saw is cutting perfectly square. The tape was a tip from IP wherein your short shoulders are left a hair proud. This is swiftly removed by a razor sharp plane blade in the fitting process. Perfect shoulders every time...
These are the aprons, both long and short. The tenons on the long are a touch shorter do a simple shim avoids the need to change your setup. Sometimes souvenirs are the perfect thickness. Thanks Don!
Fitting the cheeks in the shaper is super accurate and you can run all of your pieces quickly once you've nailed the setup. I like using a 90' sled to hold the piece while the shaper fence acts as a depth stop.
Almost ready for fitting. First I like to round over the first half or so of the tenon with an appropriate sized round-over bit.
In this case it was 3/16" (half of the 3/8" tenon thickness) This serves 2 purposes: First, waste removal, but more importantly, it leaves a great indicator for the radius of your tenon.
Back to the bench with a few simple tools and soon a perfect fit is achieved. Patience is a virtue as it's easy to blow by your perfect fit if you start getting too aggressive with your files.
Seeing parts go together is the payoff.
More fitting to do and then on to the dominizer...
Yeah, that's the down side of the whole setup...you can dance around it if you need to joint something during the joinery phase but it does have to come off once finished. The clamps came from an estate sale last year. It was a big wooden crate full of them. A lot are really small but it is nice to have lots...
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