Rounding tenons or squaring mortises?

A steel file should round the tenons. There is a part next to the cheek that can be removed with a small sharp chisel. Generally a mortise is more difficult to make adjustments than a tenon.

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Tonight was a rerun of an outdoor teak love seat Norm built a few years ago.

Lots of M/T joints forming joints that were not 90 degrees.

How did he round over the tenons?

A 4-In-Hand rather than a flat bastard file, but the elbow grease was still there.

Lew

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:36:39 -0600, the infamous Swingman scrawled the following:

for the shop? You go first class all the way.

I reckon so, but for us po folk...

P.S: I see the word "chord" in the referenced text there. You must have been thinking ahead to this conversation when you last used it. ;)

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I'm a musician by nature, what can I say ... one of those who sees triads in the birds sitting on various electrical lines.

It's a curse ...

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:49:59 -0600, the infamous Swingman scrawled the following:

I don't think electrical line birdies resemble the Chinese Mafia at all.

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