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I am happy to say I laid out and cut the mortises and tenons for the seat today. And i fitted them and glued them up. It looks like a rectangle now (and I can't mess with it until the epoxy is cured) but it is a seat and not some random lengths of wood.
Laying everything out is quite time consuming, but it's a step I can't shortchange. All the outlines I saw and drill must first be scratched onto the wood (a pencil line is too thick for this), along with drawing the "cabinetmaker's triangle" that lets me find again the proper orientation of every piece if I set one down the wrong way around.
You see, my tenons are each fitted individually to their mortises. So if I try to put in the wrong tenon (even if it's the exact same part on the other side of the seat, even if it's the exact same part but I'm trying the top tenon instead of the bottom tenon, even if it's the exact same tenon but I have it twisted 180 degrees)--it won't go. I think this may be a common problem--hence the cabinetmaker's triangle.
This takes a long time to explain and is really obvious in person. I couldn't find any good pictures on the web so I took some.
( Explanatory pictures (and bonus picture of Moxie!) behind the cut )
Laying everything out is quite time consuming, but it's a step I can't shortchange. All the outlines I saw and drill must first be scratched onto the wood (a pencil line is too thick for this), along with drawing the "cabinetmaker's triangle" that lets me find again the proper orientation of every piece if I set one down the wrong way around.
You see, my tenons are each fitted individually to their mortises. So if I try to put in the wrong tenon (even if it's the exact same part on the other side of the seat, even if it's the exact same part but I'm trying the top tenon instead of the bottom tenon, even if it's the exact same tenon but I have it twisted 180 degrees)--it won't go. I think this may be a common problem--hence the cabinetmaker's triangle.
This takes a long time to explain and is really obvious in person. I couldn't find any good pictures on the web so I took some.
( Explanatory pictures (and bonus picture of Moxie!) behind the cut )
