I m wondering what the wisdom of experience has to say about the best glue for mortise tenon joints in a chair.
Woodworking glue mortise and tenon. With router cut mortise and cut tenon on table saw and glue the half rounds onto the tenons and trim as needed. M uch of woodworking is joinery. You now have a tenon profile matching the mortise. In fact there are circumstances where it is useful for a joint to be easy to dismantle for instance so that a large piece of furniture may be readily moved.
Bob lang shows you one way to apply glue to the mortise and tenon joint when time is of the essence. I m new enough at this that some of the joints are while snug short on contact between the tenon and mortise due to my still growing skills the mortise walls aren t as smooth as you d like to see. Squeeze glue lines onto the front and back inside faces of the mortise allowing the glue to flow down with gravity to the bottom of the joint then simply insert the tenon with enough pressure to force some of the glue back up along the sides. And the corners of a door frame are joined with a mortise and tenon joint.
By lonnie bird pages 39 41 from the november 2004 issue of popular woodworking magazine. The woodworking guru looks at the loose wedged mortise tenon joint an easy strong and attractive joint for a variety of applications not all woodworking joints are held in place with glue. Clamp the joint so the tenon s shoulders are tight to the mortise. Then brush glue into the saw kerfs and the mortise s tapered spaces.
It also shows detailed instruction for how to prep the surface how to glue and clamp mortise and tenon joints using pc7 and various clamps how to make a blow out repair and multiple sanding. Lisa morgan and ed pirnik. Woodworkers around the world have used it for thousands of years to join pieces of wood mainly when the adjoining pieces connect at right angles. It s one of the most common joints in furniture construction yet most woodworkers tend to apply too much glue to their mortise and tenon joinery.
When everything is ready to go together you only have to put glue on the mortise s long sides and the tenon s cheeks. An edge to edge joint is used to join two or more boards to create a tabletop dovetails are carefully cut and fit to create a box for a chest of drawers. A mortise or mortice and tenon joint connects two pieces of wood or of other material. The mortise and tenon is a strong joint that can withstand all kinds of.
I glue on a flat board 2 or more stock dowel pieces and cut them in half on table saw segment the half round dowel stock into 2 pieces. Tap in both wedges and clean up the glue squeeze out. Learn how to avoid nasty glue squeeze out when assembling this workhorse of a joint.