Finished Mortise Hole

The process of drilling the holes in all four legs went very smoothly. Not a single mistake on these, with each marked out before hand as to where to drill is to enter so there is a smaller margin of error compared to other methods.

Even without tools or looking to closely, one can tell that the hole for each leg is slightly off center. The tenon of the side stringer, when through the mortise, will line up so that the hole drilled into the tenon is basically centered in the leg for more stability in this connection.

There may have been no problems while drilling into the legs, but many had occurred when it was time to create the peg holes in the tenons. For example, the first two I drilled I had not pushed the tenons into place correctly, so the drilling points were wrong and ended up not pulling the tenons in, or even matching up at all. This created a huge problem, and so we ended up cutting a bit of the 1/4 inch peg the width of the tenon and gluing it into the newly made holes so that the area could be reused.