This Old House

STEP-BY-STEP

1] Make the mortises

se a track saw to cut a 15⅜-inch-wide by 8-footlong sheet out of the plywood. Clamp the oak 1×3 to the plywood, edge to edge, and use a square to mark across this joint every 4 inches. Take the pieces apart. At each mark, plunge the tenon joiner into the oak edge, then

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