Howdy,
I was pondering the other day about various pieces of "mission style" furniture I'd like to build someday and thoughts of lots 'o M&T joinery came to mind...
Of interest is where this style of stuff uses lots of rungs (for lack of the proper word) that are trapped between two rails. Think of a crib or jail cell 8^)
Consider a part that has standard 3/4 inch thick by, say, 2 inch rails of some length that need to have a dozen or so mortises cut for 3/8 inch square tennons. This could be the side of an end table or a cabinet door. Has anyone here done this by taking a rail piece, planing it to 3/8" + 3/16", and cutting the dozen mortises with a dado blade? After the cuts are made, another rail of 3/16" thickness is glued to the dado'd piece to make a 3/4" thick rail with centered 3/8" mortises.
Assume the sides without rungs are hidden or otherwise so the through hole created will not show.
If you have done this does the glue line created hide well enough to be a non issue, assuming the rail is made from like grained stock (or even resawn 1" stock)?
Is this nuts or a sound method for making a gazillion mortises in a rail without a drill press or morticing machine?
Thanks!
-Bruce