Agreed, what Rob has said is perfectly correct, but failing the availability of a dead flat machine bed or workbench, which if you're making say a 5' coffee table, surely as serious hobbyists it would be better to mark out and cut accurately..
Dom
When you are marking out lay the legs (after cutting them to the same length :) ) side by side and clamp them square, then mark the first mortices, turn,the legs, clamp and so on.
If you must :) use hand tools just stay within the bloody lines and you can't go wrong.
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Actually Woden those are not Rawlbolts they are Rawl rawplug hammer in fixings the type you see with the grey rawlplug attached to the screw.
I use rawbolts on the metal bracket type.
Those in the picture are 6 inch screws.
The brackets are at about 2 foot intervals,
Dom
What is this life if full of care
We have no time to stand and stare?
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep, or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Apparently Duncan has :)
Dom
With thanks to W.Wordsworth
Went to an auction many years ago and the thing that stuck in my mind is what Noel said," listen carefully to the auctioneer ", the speak so quickly you might end up bidding on the wrong car :)
Dom