Before I continue on with the details of the leg tenon cut out, I wanted to put in a photo I omitted yesterday: a close up one of the mortises on the legs. This one is mostly cut out, just the left-side shoulder to trim flat and some clean up inside:
Back to the leg tenons – the next step was to cut the inside shoulders, using a medium-size ryoba nokogiri:
And then I define the outside face which is to be housed. The French refer to this part as the ‘barbe‘ (beard), and they are a little tricky to cut given the acute inner angle – again, a sharp rip blade on my ryoba noko was the ticket:
Here’s a close-up of two of the tenons, cut-out largely complete:
The next step was to individually fit each leg to the top:
Once each leg was fully in position, I could mark out the inside face of the tenon for the small slice that would be removed:
This allowed a pair of these tenons to nestle tightly together:
Then I turned my attention to the nuki. I don’t have detailed photos of the cut out sequence, but what I processed were haunched and shouldered tenons, slightly smaller than 1/2 height:
When cut-out was complete, then followed a round of planing on the nuki:
Then I planed the end-grain on the beam and chamfered the three arrises (leaving the top arris since the cap was yet to be fitted):
–> On to part V