B. Cutting Tenon Cheeks:
The tenon uses two styles of cheeks, structural and cosmetic. In this procedure you will cut the structural cheeks first, then the cosmetic cheeks.
1.Make sure all jig fixtures, lock levers, and setscrews are tight and correctly adjusted.
2.Plug the table saw power cord into the power supply and turn the saw ON.
3.Grasp the jig firmly and slowly slide the jig toward the saw blade and make the first
Figure 22. First structural cheek cut.
4.When the blade exits the workpiece, carefully and slowly pull the jig back past the blade to the base stop and turn OFF the saw.
H7583 Tenoning Jig
5.Remove the spacer block from the work sup- port base and re-clamp the workpiece.
6.Turn the saw ON and make the second cut as shown in Figure 23 and turn OFF the saw.
Figure 23. Second structural cheek cut.
7.Rotate the workpiece so you can now cut the two cosmetic cheeks.
8.Power up the saw, and make the remain- ing cosmetic cheek cuts the same way as in Steps 3 & 4, unplug and turn OFF the saw (see Figure 24).
Note: For cosmetic cheek cuts, merely rotate the workpiece 180º instead of using the spacer block. Cosmetic cheek cut positioning is not as critical for structural cheek cuts.