So I had some narrow stock kicking around, and made a couple of bridle-jointed frames the other day on a whim. I felt like I needed some practice sawing tenons, and figured doing bridle joints would give me twice the sawing practice. I think the muscle memory has kicked back in and I'm where I want to be again, after cutting 8 joints. I remembered I hate sawing these types of cuts in pine, and that in anything this soft, I can probably make a mortise and tenon much quicker than a bridle joint.
Anyway, now I have these two frames kicking around - squarish, basically a couple of frame and panel sans panel. I draw-bored the joints, and learned that if you're trying to pull the piece together in two directions with draw-boring, that one of the directions to offset is not what you think it is at first . . .
So yeah, it occurs to me that for some quick shop storage I need, I could put these practice pieces to use. Basically, I'd like to make a boxish thing, and use these frames as the side. Don't need anything closed in, just attached. Going to put tack some runners on these frames for a couple of trays with sockets to slide on. I could just nail some strips to the bottom and be done, but why not play around some. I'm thinking I'll cut some stretchers to length and add a dovetail to each end. Basically a half lap joint with a bit of splay.
Can I sink these tails into the existing bridle joint without disaster, or should I move them backwards into the stock of the frames?