The Stickley billiard chair is coming along. Some pics are attached. My question is concerning how you guys and gals layout the thru mortise for the arms. I took great pains in laying out the mortises and tenons for the chair and it all fit together well. My first glue up that didn't explode in chaos when I opened the glue bottle. But when it came time to make the thru mortises for the arms, I got cold feet about relying simply on layout numbers because the back of the arm fits into a shallow mortise and needs to be cut at 4 degrees or so to butt against the back leg, and I just didn't feel comfortable using numbers. So I made the fit at the back of the arm, and traced the tenon on the underside of the arm, used the mortise machine to hog out most of the waste, and then pared the sides to the lines at a slight inward angle and did a test fit and pared, a test fit and pared, etc etc until it fit. Just curious how you go about something like this.
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