The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . Figure 129 and should taper inward towards its base, so that the tenon will be slightly wedged. Other methods of fixingthe joints are: (i) to make the mortise large enoughto admit of a wedge being driven in on each side thetenon, which effectually keys it; in this case thetenon is usually put in dry, that is without glue; and(2) to split open the tenon with a chisel, and insert awedge in th
The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . Figure 129 and should taper inward towards its base, so that the tenon will be slightly wedged. Other methods of fixingthe joints are: (i) to make the mortise large enoughto admit of a wedge being driven in on each side thetenon, which effectually keys it; in this case thetenon is usually put in dry, that is without glue; and(2) to split open the tenon with a chisel, and insert awedge in the center and drive home. The danger of THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 227 this method is that the tenon is liable to be necked offat the shoulder, while in the former case the rail maybe split. If the mortise and tenon are fitted true, nowedging should be necessary. I\u /^r^N V [K. Figure 130 The thickness of the tenon should be one-third thatof the rail and the width not more than 4 inches. Ifa wider rail has to be used, it would be better to maketwo mortises and tenons, as shown in Nos. 4 and 5. No. 1.—Ordinary cut-through mortise. The tenon 228 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER
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