Manual of Purpose-Made Woodworking Joinery

Pictorial views of marking out 15

of joinery- items – unless designers want to highlight
non- standard or complex detail – but they serve their
purpose here to explain the setting out views shown at
(b) and (c) above.

PICTORIAL VIEWS OF MARKING

OUT

Figures 2.11(a)(b)(c)(d): There are a few variations in

marking out handmade joinery items – apart from

those that naturally exist between handmade and

machine- made products. In the latter case, if using a

tenoning machine, only the end grain of one of the

rails needs to be marked with the mortise gauge, so

that the tenoning- block cutters can be adjusted and

set to the tenon- thickness and the tenons’ vertical

position. My reference is to variations in marking out

for handmade items. To highlight this, the pictorial

views below reflect textbook marking out for hand-

made joinery – which could be followed. But where

I have shown dotted lines (depicting the tenon’s

haunch- reduction and haunch projection), I main-

tain that this marking out and these cuts would best

be made on the actual tenons, after they have been

deeped (rip- sawn), the shoulders cut and the cheeks

exposed. Note that the underside of the tenons,

denoted by the dotted lines on the face- side edges,

will be automatically formed by the panel- grooves

(before the tenons’ cheeks are exposed).

Figure 2.10 (c) Full- size setting out rod of section B- B,
giving door- height, position of middle rail and positions of
the five mortises required for the three rails.

Figure 2.10 (d) Outline views of sections A- A and B- B
(detailed at 10(b) and (c) above), as they would be set-
out on a ‘door rod’ of thin plywood or hardboard, etc;
note that the top rail is lined- up with the left- hand stile (or
vice versa); this is usually done to create speedier squar-
ing/setting out of components with identical detail.

(c) (a) Blind mortise for stub tenon

(b)

Figure 2.11 (a) Marking out of mortise, tenons, haunches

and panel- grooves on face- side and face- edge of top

rail; and (b) marking out on back- side and back- edge

of the same rail. Note that this marked- out rail is usually

G- cramped to the other unmarked rails and used as a

‘rod’ or ‘pattern’ for squaring and transferring the estab-

lished marks across the face- edges. The rails are then

separated to complete the marking out.

(d)

DOOR ROD