Phoenician joint
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A Phoenician joint is a locked mortise and tenon wood joinery technique used in shipbuilding to fasten watercraft hulls. The locked mortise and tenon technique consists of cutting a mortise, or socket
Mortise and tenon joinery in the Mazarron 1 Phoenician shipwreck
Model of Khufu's Solar barque with its deck removed to expose the hull. The ship's planks and frames are lashed together with halfah grass.
Coin of Abdashtart I, Achaemenid Phoenicia
PHOENICIA, Sidon. Tennes. Circa 351 347 BC
Treenail
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A treenail, also trenail, trennel, or trunnel, is a wooden peg, pin, or dowel used to fasten pieces of wood together, especially in timber frames, covered bridges, wooden ship- and boat-building. It i
Phoenician joint
…taking the form of a rectangle, is inserted into each mortise to join the two planks together. The assembly is locked by driving a peg (or dowel pin or treenail) through one or more holes drilled through the mortise side wall and tenon. This technique is known as Phoenician joint when applied to shipbuilding…
Oak treenails for pinning a wooden structure together. A used one (front center) demonstrates permanent deformation from the forces that bore on it
Protruding treenails used in timber framing at Blaubeuren Abbey, Germany. c.1478
Treenail used to fasten planking to frames, with red lead paint for waterproofing, Qui Nhơn, Vietnam
Building the Naga Pelangi, a wooden junk rigged schooner. Fitting the first plank required aligning many treenails