How I cut a Wedged Mortise and Tenon!

[Applause] so before we get into this let me just say that this is not how to cut a wedge mortise and tenon this is how I do it so as always in we're working there are several ways of doing this and it's really about finding your own style what works for you and I hope you can pick up some helpful tips from this video but as I said this is not necessarily the best way to do it just the way I like to do it so let's get started step 1 square your lumber this is really important if you reference your joints of an unsquare piece of wood it's gonna be really hard to get a nice and tight joint I'm lucky enough to have a planer in jointer you could use a hand plane even router as long as you get your lumber square make sure you check all four sides as well as checking that you cut it at a perfect 90 degrees especially returning board step 2 cut the tenon the size of the tenant really depends on the size of the board obviously I'm sure there is some sort of formula to find the right size of the tenon of the shoulder but I don't know if that's and I really don't think it matters it's really just about what looks good so in this case I found that six millimeter I think works pretty good the tenon of course cannot cannot be too small because of the wedges and because they didn't need some strength so on this one six millimeters seems to look pretty good [Music] so when finding the length of the tenon I like to simply put the maurice board which in this case is two laminated one and half inch by three inch piece of wood put them on on top just slide them in until I find what I think looks good so for me I like to have the tenant sprout so not flush to the motorsport so I'm going to have them two or three centimeters too long then I'm going to cut them afterwards so I put the motorsport where I think it looks good square it up and then make the marks you see now we're over at the table so I'm gonna use the miter sled I'm just going to put my mark at the right spot of course cut on the right side of the design and put a stop block like so then I find the depth of the blade then I start cutting [Music] so once that is done and move over to the bandsaw and I line up the fence so that blade hits the right side of the line so like this and then I cut all the way onto the shoulder line making sure that I don't go any further than the line of course [Music] so I've already made sure that my tenon is nice and square and I'm just cleaning up any rough spots without ruining the squareness [Music] okay so that was step two and step three is marking the mortise so I like to do then is say through with the mortise board subtract the width of the tenon and divide that by two so in this case this board is six point three the width of the tenon is two point four and so six point three minus two point four should be three point nine and then three point nine my three more 9/2 should be one point nine five one point nine five yes so I bring on marking gauge set it at exactly one point nine five I'm just going to double check because that's a tendency to drift a little bit when I tighten it it's still one point nine five then I just start remark and here of course it doesn't matter where on the mortise board the tenon is placed because this is only practice but if you're gonna use it for some sort of table legs or railing or anything make sure we get this distance right as well and I put some nice solid marks both sides then a double check to see if it looks all right and and it looks really good and then bring a marking knife and I make sure that I got the wood fibers to get a nice and crisp line and the next step is to transfer these marks on to the other side then want to make sure you have the same distance of course [Music] but then I don't make a mark with marking knife on the same spots because I gotta make room for the wedges I'm gonna have six millimeters on each side then make a mark with the marking knife and this brings us to step four which is going to be cutting the mortise I always start out at the drill press so I found a drill bit that fits it's not too big doesn't touch the lines and I also put a line down the center of my previous marks just to make sure that I don't go outside of the lines so and drill the holes on the side with the wider mortise with the wire marks I want to show that don't follow the newest marks but I'm gonna use the old marks because there's gonna be a taper so I don't want to go too far out to the sides [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the price is wedges so I start out by marking the cut line I'm gonna have mine one and a half centimeters from the edge make a line then I'll drill a hole at the end of the cut line to prevent any cracking from going further into the piece of wood when I've done that I'm gonna cut the slots for the wedges using my Japanese postal [Music] [Music] so now we have all of the parts ready and it's time to assemble the joint [Music] okay so this did not turn out as well as I would have hoped I actually thought about not posting this video at all because I'm really not happy with this but I'm gonna post this anyway because I want to show you guys exactly what went wrong and how I could prevent it so the big problem raela was that I made the gap too big so I had six millimeters I should have gone for three maybe four millimeters on each side and what that resulted in it gave me two problems one the wedges turned out too short I had to note the wedges in so far to fill the gap that they ended up being not long enough and I had some big problems getting the wedges all the way in so off-camera I cut two tenon off a bit so that I could get the wedges all the way in and once the glue dried I cut it flush then sanded it and put some oil on it the other problem that I had was it actually ended up cracking in the back I had to open up the wood so much that it ended up cracking further into the board so some smaller gaps smaller wedges would prevent that another mistake that I did was that I got a bit too eager when test-fitting the tenon so I thought I could drive it home it was a bit tight and it turned out it was too tight so I ended up with a small crack here and a small crack here as well and that's not good but really some wood filler in there and no one is gonna see that so I hope you guys could learn something from this learn from my mistakes there's definitely room for improvement as it probably always is in woodworking I hope this was helpful for you if it was they say the like button if you have subscribe yet make sure it subscribe button as well thank you guys for watching take care and I will see you soon [Music]

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Length: 14min 10sec (850 seconds)

Published: Wed May 16 2018