How to Make Mortise and Tenon Joints with Hand Tools
How to Make Mortise and Tenon Joints with Hand Tools
Learn how to make a simple, yet strong, hand cut Mortise & Tenon joint with traditional woodworking hand tools. Here are links to tools used in this video:
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* Marking Knife: http://bit.ly/2C7UxRj
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This is very helpful in my first babysteps of woodworking, making a mortise/tenon joint is a must-do for me !
Quick and precise videos. No rambling and just the sound of tool on wood.
This project looks less formidable on repeated viewings.
Thank you sir..👍
Make it look so easy. I used a drill to get my depth then used a chisel to square it up inside….. turned out horrible to say the least. Definitely have to try this method, looks easier
Excellent. Thank you for taking the time to post this – much obliged.
very helpful! thank you!
pog
Brilliant!
I learned how to do this more than 20 years ago, long before Youtube–mostly from books. I miss having a nice woodworking shop, it’s so relaxing doing stuff like this and having a table come together using only hand tools.
Making the tenon isnt a so difficult. Its making the mortise that is far more difficult.. You should emphasize more on that.
This was so awesome. Thank you.
4 minutes in and i like it, but prefer the Paul Sellers mortise and tenon method. I think the marking is going to be more accurate
Blue button top right of the screen!!?
Thanks for the help!
Nice video thanks sir👍
I am laying in bed having a sinus headache from menopause. I don’t even know why I watched the entire thing but it’s mesmerizing. 😃
Now that’s a nice marking gauge, so sad it doesn’t deliver to me 🙁
Thank you!
U cut that tenon like a piece of cake
a rough man
Thank you for the clear instructions. I fully agree with Aleks James comments.
Thanks very helpful, haven’t done that since school,many years back!
Nice. Now I have to buy new tools that would have been useless before I learned how to use them in this video, but now should be useful for the rest of my life especially living in this 19th C house with mortise everything that will all need fixing or replacing at some point. Job #1 replacing the broken outer rail on my front door!
I was told to only hit the chisel once tho , y
Really helpful and clear 🙌
Great overview!! Thank you!
Prince of Peace
Is there anyway to use something else instead of a mortise chisel? Could you get it to work with the normal chisel?
The bevel on your marking gauge should slope TOWARD the waste side. FYI.
Very good and thank you so much
very helpful. I take woodshop and my final tomorrow is making one of these
Great Video. Thank You
So for years now I’ve been wanting my own home wood shop but at the time I’m not able to due to living and financial situations. But I have been thinking about starting to gather tools and materials to be able to do that. BUT with my current situation I won’t be able to do anything that requires power. Such as needing. A table saw or planet and jointer. Is there a way I could start with just hand tools and being completely energy free?
You taught both parts of the joint in less than ten minutes, therefore you are a stud.
Very good Josh.
Awesome video. I’m gonna check out the rest
I’ve heard good feedback about the Woodglut plans.
Bro! what you showed gave me an interest in woodworking at home, thanks. what are the basic, essential tools required to have a wood workshop in the backyard…
Great to see it. I did it too. The plans from Woodglut helped me a lot 🙂
A bench chisel, better and quicker, cheaper then a mortise chisel
very useful thanks
Thank you for this video.
Does it matter what kind of saw you use to cut the tenon?
Great video. I like how clearly you explain how to cut this joint.
Veri skillfull
thx,easy to understand, salam from country +62🙏
I’m planning on making a bassinet, an old fashioned one, that looks like my great grandfather’s, where it goes all the way through and secured with a pin. But this is much prettier, with a hidden “seam”. ☺️
This is an awesome video, and very well described. 😃
I appreciate you demonstrating the proper method of scribing with the mortise gauge, so many guys seem to blow by it.
Very very yousfull sir thank you very much