How To Make Mortise And Tenon Woodworking Joints
The joint can simply be glued or you can reinforce it with dowels or wedges.
How to make mortise and tenon woodworking joints. To mark out the tenon you need to start by drawing a line around the entire piece of wood to create the length of the tenon. Let the glue set up then lay out the location of the pins with a pencil and combination square. How To Make A Mortise and Tenon Joint.
Then glue and clamp the joint. How to make pinned mortise-and-tenon joints. In this video I take you through the steps of making the incredibly strong and beautiful drawbore mortise and tenon joint.
I cut the end grain parts first by placing the leg at a 45-degree angle clamped in my Black Decker Workmate 225. A combination of both is the strongest. THE MORTISE-AND-TENON is one of the simplest and strongest wood joints.
Glue is often used to connect mortise and tenon joints as are dowels driven through the joint. Use at least two evenly spaced pins for each joint making sure the guide holes are at least 38 in. Its mainly used in solid wood woodworking to connect end grain to edge grain.
Coat all surfaces evenly with glue using a small brush. The first thing you must do is mark out the mortise or tenons and you can start with the tenons. Learn how to make a simple yet strong hand cut Mortise Tenon joint with traditional woodworking hand tools.
Besides a mortise and tenon joint is usually at its most standard a peg fit into a hole. I cut one side then flipped it around and started cutting from the other side. These pointed dowels are made with a spoke pointer tool.
