joinery
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Centered Mortises Without Measuring
Borrowing from my technique for cutting centered grooves on a table saw, here’s how I make centered mortises without having to find the center first.
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Crisscross Corner Joints
When I build children’s furniture, I like to use the modified mortise-and-tenon joint you see here to connect legs and aprons.
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Undoing Glue Joints
I need to disassemble a coffee table I made. Is there a “trick” to undoing glued joints?
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Stronger Butt Joints
Butt joints are simple, but require gluing end grain to side grain – risky, unless reinforced.
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Splines and Grain Direction
I thought the recommended practice was to cut splines crossgrain to add strength, since wood breaks too easily with the grain?
