Joinery
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Joinery is a part of woodworking that involves joining pieces of wood, engineered lumber, or synthetic substitutes, to produce more complex items. Some woodworking joints employ mechanical fasteners,
A carpenter uses a chain mortiser to cut a large mortise
A worker uses a large circular saw to cut joints
Joinery in Tonkin (now Vietnam) in 1923
Pin-connected post and beam house framing
Mortise and tenon
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A mortise and tenon is a joint that connects two pieces of wood or other material. Woodworkers around the world have used it for thousands of years to join pieces of wood, mainly when the adjoining pi
Joinery
…is consistent and thus reacts less to humidity. Dowels can secure wood joints hold without the use of glue or mechanical fasteners, as in a pinned mortise and tenon. Glue is highly effective for joining timber when both surfaces of the joint are edge grain. A properly glued joint may be as strong or stronger than…
Tusked-through tenons used on a French granary
Egyptian stool with through tenons, c. 1991–1450 BC
Experimental archaeology; cutting a mortise with a cannonbone chisel
A through mortise is used in this wooden hinge.