On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 23:29:29 GMT, "Mike S."
wrote:

this follows Norms advice of measure twice cut ones.

Even better is to not measure it, then you can't get it wrong !

I blast my mortices through with whatever size hole the chisel makes.
Then I set the bandsaw fence up to cut tenons to match the hole. They
plug straight in.

I have a vague idea what size they are. But I don't waste time
measuring this stuff, and it just doesn't matter if my morticer fence
is a bit off (this is a hard adjustment to get accurate on my setup).

Measuring is for repeat work (and yes, I can drone one for hours about
the work of Bramah, Whitworth, Colt and Cadillac). If you really are
just making a one-off, then "standardisation" isn't a meaningful
concept. Chase the thing that matters - fitting the two parts
together _to_each_other_, not trying to match each of them to soem
external standard.

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Smert' spamionam