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Intersecting Tenons

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
If a side rail and a front rail intersect, I have always simply mitered the two and let them meet. That generally makes you thicken the stile/leg.

I am trying to thin down the structure and am thinking of doing this:

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These are not dowels, but round tenons.

The tone of the piece calls for through tenons (in my head).

Alternatively I have thought of doing the front rail a through wedged tenon, and the side rail just a short tenon (leaning that way actually). For looks I want the through tenon on the face, but for structure, the front rail needs it much more.

What other interesting or creative ways have you folks managed intersecting tenons or through tenons where there are 90 degree offset rails in casework?
 

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Look up Japanese wood joints. There are a lot of amazing variations and plenty of practical ones that are fairly straightforward to make.

I'm not sure if you need 2 dowels on the short rail. If not, put the dowel on the short rail on the top and then dowel for the long rail on the bottom
 
#6 ·
I had a similar conundrum when I was building my Gaming TV stand. You can ignore the prattle, and about 1/3 of the way down the project I have some SketchUp screen dumps and pictures about how I tackled the tenons (made by a Leigh FMT), using a Fein multi-tool… or ignore all that crap and use a coping saw to trim the tenons.
 
#7 ·
I had a similar conundrum when I was building my Gaming TV stand>

- LittleBlackDuck
I had thought of the "half and half" approach. I think that is where I will end up if I cling to the "through" look and decide not to miter the tenon ends and just do my normal build method.

I have also played with the design to get the rails to not line up…still thinking on that.
 
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