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   Samson | Nov 29, 2006 11:36pm | #1

   Not that it probably makes much difference in the answer, but by "loose" do you mean floating tenons - as in where you mortise both boards and fit a tenon that spans both?  Or do you mean where you've made a mistake in cutting the tenons and now it's too small for the mortise, so you need to add some veneer or other thin slice to a face to tighten it back up? 

   In the later case, at least where it's a through tenon for example, or otherwise visible, the same wood conceals the fix better.  In all other cases, same wood is likely preferable just so that expansion and contraction rates are as close as possible to the surrounding wood.  Other species may have similar enough to work fine, but only same is exactly the same, so to speak.

    

   
   

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   Edited 11/29/2006 3:37 pm ET by Samson

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   Neil | Nov 30, 2006 12:18am | #2

   Yes, I meant floating tenons<!----><!----><!---->

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   xmike | Nov 30, 2006 03:31am | #3

   It's OK, Neil.  Many of us us the terms "loose tenon" and "floating tenon" interchangeably.

   Mike D :)

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   Samson | Nov 30, 2006 05:27am | #4

   Neil, I wasn't trying to correct you or anything - I just genuinely didn't know if I understood your question is all.  Anyway, my thought (FWIW) was that different species could work out fine, but same wood makes it a no brainer in that you don't even have to think about whether it might be a problem.  Cheers.