Manual of Purpose-Made Woodworking Joinery

Making basic mortise- and- tenon joints 29

(d) Turn the work (or yourself ) around and run the
saw in the established cut, down again to the shoulder;
(e) Level out the saw and carefully finish sawing
down to the shoulder line.

Deeping repetition

Repeat the above procedure on the other cheek of the
tenon – and on all the ends of the rails to be tenoned.
Note that if the inner- edges of the rails are to be
grooved, moulded or rebated, the rails are left with the
tenons deeped, but not yet shouldered; the tenon-
cheek waste material is left on to allow a better start
and run- off of the hand planes, powered router or
spindle moulder used to form the edge- detailing.

Cutting shoulders

Figure 3.18: Once the edge detailing has been done,
each rail can be laid on a pair of wooden bench hooks
and the shoulders can be cut with a tenon- saw (not
the one with the rip- saw teeth!). When the shoulders
have been scored with a marking knife, it is good

TENON SAW TENON SAW

TENON SAW

(a) (b) (c)

Figures 3.17 (a)(b)(c)

Deeping procedure for

removing tenon- cheek

waste

Figures 3.17 (d)(e) Final

stages of the deeping

procedure.

TENON SAW

TENON SAW

(d) (e)

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SECTION A-A THROUGH CHISEL

RAIL

Figure 3.18 Paring the V- shaped furrow against the

tenon’s shoulder.