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Learn 6 Classic Joints FROM THE EDITORS OF POPULAR WOODWORKING MAGAZINE Joinery BASICS Learn 6 Classic Joints Dovetails PLUS: Text to come Includes Finger Joints Plane-Storage SPONSORED BY Project! Mortise-&-Tenon Jointsts popularwoodworking.com c1_1406_RA_Cover.indd c1 3/20/14 10:31 AM Helping you make great connections Accurate joinery begins with precision layout. Cumulative that repeatedly score good marks among woodworking errors in marking or measuring can quickly add up to enthusiasts. And to help you complete all your cuts ill-fi tting joints. 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BY CHRISTOPHER SCHWARZ 9 Shop-made Mortise Jig 9 An inexpensive shop-made jig makes quick and accurate work of router-cut mortises. BY GLEN D. HUEY 18 Mitered 11 Half-lap Joinery Better Finger With a router, straight bit and a scrap of Joints plywood, learn how to turn a weak joint into This nifty shop-made table saw jig helps you a solid and strong mitered corner. 25 cut accurate machine-age fi nger joints. BY GLEN D. HUEY BY ROBERT W. LANG 20 Cut Accurate & 25 Dovetailed Clean Rabbets Plane Cabinet Discover three good ways to cut this joint: by Learn to cut dovetails by hand as you make 11 router, by table saw and by hand. this handy and handsome storage cabinet. BY CHRISTOPHER SCHWARZ BY CHRISTOPHER SCHWARZ EDITOR’S NOTE Solid Joinery for Several Lifetimes ure, you can use metal fasteners power-tool techniques – approaches working Magazine – the two publications (nails, screws etc.) and build nice- that can be achieved with the tools and that combined to make Popular Wood- Slooking projects. But if you want machinery found in most woodwork- working Magazine (PW M). In ever y issue your work to outlast its maker, you ing shops – from some of our best-loved of PW M, you’ ll fi nd skill-building tech- need to learn how to cut solid joinery and most experienced writers: Glen D. niques for hand tools and power tools, – it makes your projects stronger, more Huey, Robert W. Lang and Christopher shop tricks you can put to use right away, attractive and more durable. Schwarz. great-looking projects with step-by-step In “Joinery Basics,” you get a intro- Plus, the fi nal article, Christopher’s instruction and more. duction to some of the most useful and dovetailed plane cabinet, not only teach- I invite you to visit us online to fi nd common joints in woodworking: rabbets, es you hand-cut dovetails, but grooves out more about the magazine, read the fi nger joints, mortise-and-tenons, dove- and dados, too. And of course, when Editors’ Blog and Christopher Schwarz’s tails and more. With these must-know you’re done w ith that project, you’ ll have hand-tool blog, free project and tech- joints in your tool kit, you’ll be well on improved your skills and have a nice- nique articles and more. You’ll fi nd us your way to making most any project – looking storage piece for your planes. at popularwoodworking.com. and making it to last. These articles fi rst appeared in older You’ll fi nd a combination of hand- and issues of Popular Woodworking and Wood- PHOTOS BY AL PARRISH popularwoodworking.com ■ 1 01_1406_RA_TOC.indd 1 3/18/14 9:14 AM Mortise & Tenon Basics BY CHRISTOPHER SCHWARZ Discover a superior way to cut this superlative joint. A lot of woodworkers spend a will use it in every project. Why? Well, the biscuits held on tightly to the wood, lot of time, effort and money to avoid it is remarkably strong. A few years ago but t hey pulled away chunk s from t he making mortise-and-tenon joints. Bis- we decided to pit this venerable and mating piece as the joint failed. cuits, dowels, commercial loose-tenon traditional joint against the high-tech The second cube survived the fi rst jigs and expensive router bits are just a super-simple biscuit. So we built two hit with the anvil – the joints held to- few of the “work-arounds” developed cubes, one using biscuits and one with gether even though the wood split at the this century so you don’t have to learn mortises and tenons. Then we dropped points of impact. A second hit with the to make a mortise and its perfectly a 50-pound anvil on each cube. The anvil ruined the cube entirely, though matched tenon. results were eye-opening. most of the tenons stuck tenaciously But once you learn how straightfor- Both cubes were destroyed. The bis- to their mortises. ward and simple this joint can be, you cuit cube ex ploded on impact. Some of The lesson here is that biscuits are indeed tough, but when t hey fail, t hey THE ’ANVIL’ TEST fail catastrophically. The mortise-and- tenon joints fail, too, but they take their time, becoming loose at fi rst rather than an immediate pile of splinters. So when you’re building for future generations and you know how to make this stout joint with minimal fuss, you won’t say “Why bother?” You’ll say “Why not?” Choosing the Right Tools There are so many ways to cut this joint that one big obstacle to mastering it is The anvil is about to hit the cube made The cube made out of biscuits is de- choosing a technique. I’ve tried many using #20 biscuits. stroyed on impact. ways to cut this joint – backsaws, com- mercial table-saw tenon jigs and even the sweet $1,000 Leigh Pro Frame Mor- tise and Tenon Jig. Each technique or jig has advan- tages in economy, speed or accuracy. The technique I’m outlining here is the one I keep coming back to year after year. It uses three tools: a hollow-chisel mortiser for the mortises, a dado stack to cut the tenons and a shoulder plane The mortise-and-tenon cube held to- The mortise-and-tenon cube collapsed to fi ne-tune your joints. Yes, this is a gether after the fi rst hit. after the second hit. little bit of an investment, but once you start using this technique, these tools 2 ■ JOINERY BASICS LEAD PHOTO BY AL PARRISH; STEP PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR 02_1406_RA_M&TBasics.indd 2 3/18/14 9:23 AM popularwoodworking.com ■ 3 02_1406_RA_M&TBasics.indd 3 3/18/14 9:24 AM will become the foundation for much Lever Hollow-chisel mortisers excel at of your joint-making. boring square holes. Here you (For a simple and inexpensive jig to can see the hold-down (which is usually inadequate with other cut mortises with a router, see “Shop- machines), the table (which must made Mortise Jig” on page 9.) be squared to the chisel before ■ Hollow-chisel mortisers: These use) and the lever (which makes machines are nothing new, but the the machine plow through benchtop ones are now cheaper, more almost any job). powerful and more accurate than ever. For about $240, you’ll get a good ma- chine. cost $50 or less – I haven’t Essentially, a mortiser is a marriage found t hem to be ver y shar p between a drill press and an arbor press and the teeth aren’t well- that’s designed for metalworking. The Hold-down ground. The expensive sets drill press part has a spinning chuck ($200 and more) are nice, that holds an auger bit that chews up the but they’re probably more waste wood. The auger bit is encased in than you need unless you a hollow four-sided chisel that cleans are making your living at up the walls of your mortise, making Table woodworking. My favorite the auger’s round hole a square one. mid-priced set is the Freud The arbor press part of the machine SD208. It’s about $100 and is the gear-and-lever system that push- Tape squares does a fi ne job. es the tooling into your wood.
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