Greetings,
I am working on a design (gathering design ideas from all sorts of sources) for a workbench and have a question about the leg to stretcher joints. Maybe someone would have some insight.
This morning an image popped into my head of the stretchers being joined to the legs with large through dovetails. I'm thinking of both the short and long stretcher joining such thtat hteir ends meet in a miter. Tails would be cut on both stretchers and the pins would look sort of like the keyed dovetails sometimes used to strengthen miters on boxes.
What do you experts think? Would this be a sound method of joining the pieces?