Thursday, May 27, 2010
You too shall meet your day of tenoning
After all that hard work chopping mortises, my sense of accomplishment quickly faded as I thought ahead to all the matching tenons I would now have to cut. So to make things a bit more interesting, I decided to do a little tenon-off between hand tools and power tools. My last project, the shaker end table, was done all with hand tools and I was very happy with the quality of the joinery. I figured if I could match that quality with this piece without sacrificing a big difference in the time it took to cut the tenons, well why the heck not. In this episode I demonstrate a few different ways of cutting tenons, and go head to head with the results and compare quality and speed. The results might surprise you...
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2 comments:
Great shootout Rob, I could not imagine cutting 25 tenons by hand. As much as I love my tenon saws, I think repeatability would be tough to maintain. Excited to see the rest of this build.
Great video Rob Thanks for sharing
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