Wedged Through Tenon

This bedstead im building is a perfect place to use a joint that i rarely cut.

Wedged through tenon. Its easier to fine tune a tenon to fit a mortise than the other way around. In addition the tenon will extend out past the mortise to allow space for the wedge with enough material at the end to prevent it from breaking when you hammer the wedge in. How to make a wedged through mortise and tenon. It has many of the same strengths as other mortise and tenon joinery but doesnt use glue.

The wedged through tenon is another type of through tenon used in arts and crafts furniture. The pin tusk length also helps a little to prevent racking. For through tenons i generally do use wedges like this that are slightly flared as in foxtail wedging bit sloping in too. Its good practice to start with the mortise for any type of mortise and tenon joint.

The process for making the mortise is much the same as the previous post except that once you get the mortise on the bench to clean it up you must flair the outside ends of the mortise out about one eighth of an inch. The wedged through mortise and tenon. The wedged mortise tenon this time tested joint is perfect for knockdown furniture. See the article.

Wedged through mortise and tenon sprung breadboard. The tenon is extended well beyond the wedge to resist the loads that are being place on it. Before you begin your project make a prototype joint see designing your wedged joint right. The key to the wedged mt is that the mortise goes all the way through the board with the tenon having two shoulders on the sides.

The angle of the saw kerf reduces the risk of splitting the tenon parallel to the narrow edge by moving the vulnerable point nearer to the centre of the tenon. Will myers shows how to cut chop and wedge a very strong mortise tenon joint while building the historical moravian workbench vice at roy underhills woodwrights school. Adding to whatevil posted there is another type of wedged through tenon more precisely referred to as a wedged tusk tenon or a tusk tenon. Therefore it is often called a dutch barn style through tenon.

This type of through tenon is commonly found in anchor beams in dutch style barns which have been part of the new england landscape for hundreds of years. The wedges must not be so long as to break off or to interfere with the tenon being driven home and the bottom of the mortise should be quite smooth where the wedges strike it or the wedges may turn to one side and not enter the tenon. Blind fox wedged tenon and mortise woodworking joint blind wedging is sometimes resorted to when the mortise does not extend through the piece. This is often referred to as relish.