This rookie made one tonight. I'm making a garbage bag holding thing for the back of the bathroom cabinet doors, my last punchlist item for the bathroom remodel.
I decided to dabble with mortise and tenon and halved joints and use no fasteners. I made a practice M&T and was reasonably happy with that.
I cut all the stock, dadoed out all the halved joints and was setting up the dado for the tenon. I get the depth all dialed in and then I remembered the fancy stop that came with the Incra miter guide. I dig that out, run the dado up a bit to calibrate it for length, and
FORGET TO RE-SET THE DEPTH!
ZZZIng there goes about half the tenon. WHat THE!
I ponder this for a bit, and realize the back side of this through tenon is up against the cabinet door. Rather than dice up some more cherry, I dig through the bin of scrap and find the perfect little wedge pieces. No one will know, right?
That's why I posted this here, to remind me.
I decided to dabble with mortise and tenon and halved joints and use no fasteners. I made a practice M&T and was reasonably happy with that.
I cut all the stock, dadoed out all the halved joints and was setting up the dado for the tenon. I get the depth all dialed in and then I remembered the fancy stop that came with the Incra miter guide. I dig that out, run the dado up a bit to calibrate it for length, and
FORGET TO RE-SET THE DEPTH!
ZZZIng there goes about half the tenon. WHat THE!
I ponder this for a bit, and realize the back side of this through tenon is up against the cabinet door. Rather than dice up some more cherry, I dig through the bin of scrap and find the perfect little wedge pieces. No one will know, right?
That's why I posted this here, to remind me.