Mortise and Tenon Joinery
A fundamental joint for furniture-making, the mortise-and-tenon joint has been time-tested. Let us show you how to make precision-fitting joints in a variety of ways including hand tools, power tools, and jigs to make the process easy and repeatable.
The router table works well for mortises up to 1x4" wide. With mortises larger than that, I find I have better control by plunging the bit into the work with a plunge router.
Q:
Is there a rule of thumb for sizing a mortise-and-tenon joint?
Over the next hour, WOOD magazine's Kevin Boyle will show you step by step how to build an arts and
Practice your handsaw skills as you learn to hand-cut a tenon.
Instead of hiding the screw heads with round plugs, emphasize it with a shallow mortise and square e
Learn what a PantoRouter is and how it can help you make repeated mortise and tenon joints with ease
Recently, I had to cut 1⁄2
"-thick, 21⁄2
"-long tenons in 3⁄4
" oak for a project. Each time, the results were a disaster.
The latest thing on my bench is a chair with a few loose legs and stretchers. One stretcher even pulls right out of its socket. How do I tighten the joints?
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A simple jig for grooving short dowels
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