Last night I was trying to finish joining the top sash meeting rail to the stiles. I looked at my layout lines and thought “why do I have another line here?” I was also starting to think about how I was going to cut the glazing rebate without being able to go all the way to the end but kept working anyway cutting the tenons in the stiles. Suddenly I woke at 4:30 and it hit me, I was supposed to leave one side of the stile longer to fill the meeting rail glazing rebate.
So I have three options
1) add a filler piece – this is my least favorite as it gives moisture one more point of entry and looks bad.
2) Cut a stopped rebate, but how. I am doing a hand tool built so I would prefer to do by hand but a router (power) is all I can think of and finish the ends with chisel.
3) Start over on the stiles – I can’t remember if I cut both or not.
So my question here is can I cut a stopped rebate using hand tools?
The only way that comes to mind is to cut a knife wall and remove waste with a chisel repeatedly. Finish final depth with a router plane. Any other ideas out there? The rebate needs to be 1/2” deep.