Hi all, looking for some advice.
Pretty new to hand tool woodworking and been following the English woodworker tutorial video series to make a danish stool.
I was busy with some small, angled tenons and when fitting the last one into the mortise I stupidly tried to hammer it home with a mallet and heard a dreaded pop. The wood has split along the grain.
Any advice on fixing this daft mistake? If I remove the tenon the split can’t be seen, but it’s still visible even after I’ve fettled the tenon more to make it a looser fit. If I do glue this up, would it be best to glue the split first, let that set, then glue the tenon in, or glue it all together at once and get some clamps on there? Does this look like it’ll affect the strength of the joint too much? It’s the top apron, and is going to be a weave seat. The tutorial says it’s not going to need to be a very strong joint (hence it being small) as the weave will be adding the bulk of the strength.