Sweet Chest of Drawers Build #5: Bottom front and back rails

The last blog was about joining the sides on the top and now this one is about joining them from the bottom. This part is going to be a little more tricky. This is my first indication that I’m actually building the beginning of what will be a giant puzzle when it comes to glue up time.
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If you’ve read the blogs before this one, you’ll remember that I made a triple mortise and a double mortise on each of the legs. If you don’t remember or didn’t see the blog, this was a picture of what the triple mortise looks like. I already made the double tenon and now it’s time to make the triple tenon.
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Mark those triple tenons out…
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Cut them…
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Cut cut cut…
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Now the formula here is to have two short tenons, and one long tenon.
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The outside tenons will meet the perpendicular rail’s tenons and the middle tenon just fits in the mortise. Well, you’ll see what I mean.
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Now all the tenons bottom out on the mortises, so I had to get creative and come up with a solution for the perpendicular tenons, and that solution was to miter the tenons.
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That last picture is the only evidence of that joint.
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As neat as it was to make, it’s completely concealed and nobody will ever know what kind of joint is in there. Oh well, I know, and you guys know it’s there.
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Tight, perpendicular, and plenty of glue surface. That should hold up, shouldn’t it?
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Then to do it three more times and assemble to make sure it all fits and looks good.
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That was fun.
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Any questions or concerns?

-- Kyle