Simple mortise-and-tenon joints that meet at right angles can be made satisfactorily with power tools, but the ability to cut a mortise and tenon by hand opens up a much wider range of applications ...
A mortise and tenon joint is one of the most basic and strong ways to join two boards together, but it takes a bit more time (and more tools) than some of the other joinery techniques we've discussed.
In this short build I show how I cut a keyed mortise and tenon joint entirely by hand. I mark out the shoulders, chop the ...
Watch YouTube woodworker extraordinaire Frank Howarth build 64 garage storage drawers from mortise and tenon joints made on a Pantorouter. "I am building a storage system for our basement," says ...
I am often asked why I prefer loose tenon joinery to integral tenon joinery. It's because I find loose tenons, in most cases, to be faster and easier to cut. Let's say, for example, that we are making ...