I'm building a teacher's slant top lecture/ standing writing desk and have a question. I have four "legs" about 1.5" square that will also serve as the stiles or corners for the upper box portion. I've joined the back and front pairs of legs with mortise and tenon stretchers and will have a stretcher connecting the pair of leg sets.
The sides of the box will be flush with the outside of the legs. No raised or inset panel. Should I take the side panels and cut multiple tenons to insert into the upper legs, or do one long stopped dado into the upper legs with the sides having one long tenon? I've already rabbeted the sides' so that they are tenon thickness. I'm thinking multiple tenons will be easier as I will only have about 14 smaller mortises to cut (four back and three front for each side) versus four long dados. I don't have a dado plane, so would have to cut the dados as if they were one long mortise with a mortise chisel.
Does this make any sense?
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