Well it's still warm outside but I've been fortunate to have some overcast days to hide the blazing sun so I mozied out to the garage to see if I could get anything accomplished. After butchering the last beam I was a little gun shy about cutting up another one at $105 bucks a pop. Needless to say I was very very careful. Since part of my problem is the awkwardness of the 16" Makita and the way it easily wanders, I decided to begin by making a first cut with my 7 1/4" Dewalt and follow up with the Makita to cut the 4" depth I needed to get half way through the beam and do the same on the other side. This seemed to work pretty well but I still needed some plaining after the cut. Here are the results. As you can see I have about an eight of an inch gap and am working on getting it to a 1/16. The top half has a mortise for the post and the bottom half will have a 2" mortise for the 6" post tenon to extend into. This will help hold the two sills together along with the pegs.
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