Bridle Joint Wood Joints

Better still the bridle joint may be one of the easiest joints to cut.

Bridle joint wood joints. 90 degree bridle joints are super simple to make it gets a bit more. A bridle joint is a woodworking joint similar to a mortise and tenon in that a tenon is cut on the end of one member and a mortise is cut into the other to accept it. Normally you use it to join two pieces of wood at 90 degrees. A bridle joint is quick and easy to make since most of the waste wood is removed with a saw.

These are popular joints for frames and to join rails legs and stiles. Corner bridle joint finger joint a development of the halving type joints is a corner bridle joint. You insert one end of a piece into a hole in the other pieceyou call the end of the first piece a. This woodworking joint looks beautiful when finished due to the contrasting end grain.

Another useful joint in frame construction. How to make bridle joints step1. The bridle joint is one of the strongest joints because there is so much surface area for glue to hold the pieces together. This uses an open mortise with a through open tenon.

Because these joints still have a mortise and tenon they are still very strong and fairly attractive. Start by marking out the tenon by drawing a line around the entire piece of wood to create the tenon length. The corner bridle joint also known as a slot mortise and tenon joins two members at their respective ends forming a. There is plenty of glue surface area and the joint will be strong but screws or dowels as reinforcement will help the joint to resist side forces.

The difference in the bridle joints mortise and tenon is in the length of the tenon and the depth of the mortise. Bridle joints are very similar to the mortise and tenon joint but the difference is in the size of the mortise and tenon. The bridle joint makes for a good choice when constructing narrow frames see stacking barristers bookcases page 24 providing eye appeal and extreme durability. Woodworkers have used it for many years.

The length of the tenon will be the same depth as the width of your other piece of timber which has the mortise. Mortise and tenon woodworking joints one of the strongest woodworking joints is the mortise and tenon joint. Other namesbridal joints slip joints open slot mortise joint slip mortise and tenon joint. The distinguishing feature is that the tenon and the mortise are cut to the full width of the tenon member.

Bridle joints are similar to mortise and tenon but the tenon and other member are cut to slot into each other. In this video ill be showing you how to cut a bridle joint entirely by hand no power tools what so ever. Can shape joint assembly and not sacrifice strength.