What Does 1" TBE mean?

[Tom Frank]

Hi Everyone,

This is my first post here, I believe. What an active forum! I'm glad I found it.

I have noticed an acronym "TBE" on various plans for arts and crafts furniture projects I've been looking at, and I can't figure out what it means. It is often listed in a comments section on a materials list next to the dimensions of a piece. In this book I am looking at, it is listed a lot with rails and stiles, so I am guessing it has to do with tenons.

Example:

Dimensions T W L-------------Comments
3/4" x 2" x 21"-----------------1" TBE

What does this note stand for? Is it "Tenons Both Ends?"

Thanks,
Tom

[Dewey Torres]

To be exact.

[Rick Fisher]

Welcome to the forum. I think it means "To be exact", but I actually dont know.

[Dewey Torres]

Book-mark this:

http://sawmillcreek.org/showthread.p...light=acronyms

Although TBE was not in here, you may need to refer to it from time to time.

[Paul Atkins]

I thought is was 'TiteBond Excess'.

[Tom Veatch]

If "TBE" means "To Be Exact", can someone enlighten me as to the interpretation of 1" (To Be Exact) in the comment quoted by Tom Frank? I don't see any obvious relationship between that and the rest of the quoted text.

[Dewey Torres]

If "TBE" means "To Be Exact", can someone enlighten me as to the interpretation of 1" (To Be Exact) in the comment quoted by Tom Frank? I don't see any obvious relationship between that and the rest of the quoted text.

In that case how about:

Total Budget Estimate


heck ... at this point I am just guessing

[Clifford Mescher]

Tenons both ends. Clifford.

[Ken Milhinch]

In the quoted context, it means tenons both ends.

[Bob Genovesi]

Take your pick,


Tick-Borne Encephalitis
Tab browser Extensions
To Be Expected
Transitional Bilingual Education
To Be Evaluated
Turbo-Back Exhaust
Threaded Both Ends
Tabbed Browser Extension
Time Base Error
The Benchmark Exchange
Technical Bid Evaluation
Toilet Bowl Effect
Total Budget Estimate
Task Breakdown Element
Trade Bill Exchange
Telecommunications & Broadcast Equipment
Time Based Escalation
Transient Buffer Exposure
Timing Belt End

[Tom Frank]

Toilet Bowl Effect it is!

Thanks or the answers, guys. As Tom Veatch pointed out, I just can't how "To Be Exact" would make sense in the context of how I presented it. I believe T s for Tenon, because in the project from which I quoted, that board listed does have 1" tenons.

Thanks again!
Tom