How-To
Spacer Blocks Make Double Mortise-and-Tenons Easy
Learn furniture pro Tim Rousseau's simple tricks for top-notch double mortise-and-tenon joinery
May 23, 2013
Getting all the elements of a double mortise-and-tenon joint to line up correctly can be a long, tedious task, but it doesn’t have to be. In this classic clip from furniture maker Tim Rousseau‘s Video Workshop series on building an Asian-Inspired Hall Table, you’ll learn how use the same set of spacer blocks to handle both mortises and tenons.
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I am at a loss as to how the mortise spacer works as shown. The first cut on the band saw uses the fence, the next uses the tenon spacer, but the third, the one that defines the cheek of the next tenon, uses only the mortise spacer. Earlier in the video, when cutting mortises, Tim uses this same mortise spacer to move the router the distance from one mortise to the next. Whereas on the band saw, that sam spacer moves the blade from the outermost cheek of the first tenon, to the innermost cheek of the second. These distances are different! What am I missing?
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