If you insist on butchering up a frame, make the cuts at 45 degree angles and fish plate the joint for added strength. Getting things right so all the parts fit after the hack job has two possibilities, slim and none!
Jerry


"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
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