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Jigs for Perfect Mortise & Tenon Joints

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These jigs help you hand cut flawless mortise-and-tenon joints.By Jeff Miller
Pages 48-52Mortise-and-tenon joints tend to frustrate woodworkers far more than dovetails do. That's no mystery; they are genuinely harder to cut than dovetails. The large flat tenon cheeks and mortise walls need to be flat, smooth and parallel, the shoulders have to line up perfectly all the way around the tenon, and to get a fit that works, the tolerances are within a couple of thousandths of an inch.About a year ago, I started fooling around with an idea to make hand-cut mortise-and-tenon joints a little easier. I came up with a pair of simple jigs that make it possible to cut - in conjunction with a good tenon saw and some mortise and paring chisels - accurate, repeatable joints by hand that rival those cut by machine. The jigs cut down on layout as well. And they make it easy to cut angled tenons. The final bonus is that the tenoning jig can actually help improve your saw technique.Video: Watch the author demonstrate his tenon jig.
Video: Watch the author demonstrate his mortise-paring jig.
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Web site: Visit Jeff Miller's web site for a list of classes he teaches.
Article: Read our story on how best to apply glue to a mortise-and-tenon joint.The post Jigs for Perfect Mortise & Tenon Joints appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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Frank Klausz' Masking Tape Joinery

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A while back I posted a trick for using blue painters tape to help adjust a router cut. The response …The post Frank Klausz' Masking Tape Joinery appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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How to Make Cherry Look Old: There's No Good Way

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It would be hard to find a question in woodworking more often asked and more often inadequately answered than how …The post How to Make Cherry Look Old: There's No Good Way appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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Steel Angle to the Rescue

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Although I rarely work with metal (other than metal hardware such as hinges, pulls, z-clip tabletop fasteners and screws), every …The post Steel Angle to the Rescue appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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