Mortise And Tenon

New tools from Woodpeckers, Crucible, and Union and Heartwood

David Johnson repairs a broken tenon on a Mid-Century classic; a Hans Wegner CH25.

In this episode, Mike Pekovich cuts the through-tenons in his hanging wall cabinet and demonstrates his methods for fitting them. He also shares his tips for accurate handsawing and his overall build strategies and how they affect accuracy in everything he builds.

Mike heads to the drill press to hog away most of the material before cleaning up the through-mortises at the bench.

Learn how to systematically lay out both the mortises and tenons using blue tape and clever spacer blocks.

Watch Mike Pekovich's one-step process for simplifying the task of offsetting drawbore holes by using an undersize center punch.

The tried-and-true mortise and tenon comes in many forms.

In this episode, Chris assembles the face frame with drawbored pins and glues it to the case

In this episode, Chris hand cuts the face frame tenons with a tenon saw and then uses handplanes to fit it to the mortise

In this episode, Chris creates the faceframe mortises, using a mortice gauge, auger, and a mortise chisel