JMAwoodworks writes in, “Can you talk more about your tapered tenon universal joint, how you arrived at it, and broadly how you make both parts, and what application it might have in a home shop?” That’s a big one, and I’m glad you wrote this in ahead of time, because I had time to think …
From Prusa Woodworks, “Do you have space at the bottom of your mortise for extra glue?” Well, usually, if it’s a shouldered mortise and tenon, I do leave space at the bottom of the glue, of the mortise for glue, just because otherwise, there’s, the glue tends to push the mortise, push the tenon out …
I received this question in episode 7 of the Ask Brian Boggs Show: “I cut my mortise and tenon joints so that they can be assembled by hand pressure and they don’t fall apart from the force of gravity. I presume that means you’re holding them up so the thing, the tenon would fall out. “Many …
I received this question in episode 1 of the Ask Brian Boggs Show: When using turned legs, is it necessary to have tapered tenons and reamed holes… Or can a straight wedge tenon hold fine? This question opens up a whole lot of what I’ve been doing in experimenting with joints, how they behave, how glue …
