With the steps and legs joined I turned my attention to the stretchers.
The stretcher blanks were laid across the legs, with the bottom edge of the stretchers even with my marks. Then I marked the top of the stretcher on the legs and the inside and outside of the legs on the stretchers. I cut the stretchers to length at the outside edge of the leg marks. Then I used a bevel gauge and laid out a single tail on each end, extending from the inside leg mark to the end of the stretcher. I cut down the side of the tail with my dovetail saw, then I scored the shoulder line with a chisel and cut it with the saw too.
The "pins". |
Once the tails were cut, I laid the stretchers back down in place on the legs and marked the pins (its really just a single negative tail, but for the sake of clarity, Ill call it the pins). The sides of the pins were cut with my dovetail saw and I chiseled out down to the base.
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