Stiles, rails and sash bars were all put together with mortise and tenon joints and even the sash bars were pegged together with wood.
These outside shutters are of heavy construction like doors, the stiles and rails having mortise and tenon joints held together by dowel pins and the panels being molded and raised.
The frame is of the same thickness, with mortise and tenon joints doweled together.
A far better method is to mortise the shelf through the end pieces and fasten it with a good, healthy pin or wedge, as shown at f; and a still better plan is to have two mortises and two wedges, as shown at g.
Through mortise and tenon, used in furniture construction and building.
In mortise and tenon joints of this character a method called draw boring is frequently used.
The mortise and tenon joints should be glued, and a clamp used at top and bottom.
Another method would be to lay both uprights on the ground, place the tie piece in position, fasten with wooden pins driven through holes bored through the mortise and tenon joints, and nail the 2 x 4 plate on top of both posts.
This operation could be simplified, by replacing the mortise and tenon at that point by a dowel joint, but it would no longer be genuine mission furniture, and a much weaker form of construction.
The mortise and tenon form is the better way, and as usual takes more time.
Relished mortise and tenon or door joint, a form used at the corners of doors.
The whole front in this case may be put together with mortise and tenon joints, as in panel door construction, or the simpler method just described may be used.
There was considerable work on the legs because of the mortisefor the shelf, and the two openings above.
Simple as this design appears, if put together by mortise and tenon, with provision made for the panelled front and sides, it will call for fine work.
It calls for forty mortiseand tenon joints, and as it is usually made in oak, it requires considerable time for laying out as well as for cutting.
Stretcher joint; a combination of end lap, mitre, and end mortise and tenon; used by artists for frames on which their canvas is fastened.
There are rockers placed on each end of this shaft, one of which is connected with a crank on the mortise wheel shaft, and the other with the surface rods that work the pump-bobs.
The mortise spur-wheels have a diameter of 22½ feet at the pitch line, with two rows of teeth, each 15 inches face.
The mortise hole had apparently got smaller, and still fitted the shrunken tenon to perfection.
Then he completes the mortise in a moment with a chisel, the rails being laid in position as guides to the size of the apertures.
The bottom of it should be six inches in thickness, with a square mortise in the centre, to allow the top of the beam to enter.
Illustration: Halved lap joint] [Illustration: Mortise and tenon joint] Character of the Frame.
Heavy, square legs, and mortise and tenon joints are called for.
It is a common fault of beginners to be satisfied with loose mortise and tenon joints, counting upon the glue to fill up the spaces.
Mortise and tenon joints should be used in the framing.
It consists of a framework of ordinary thickness, put together usually with mortise and tenon joints.
Illustration: How the centre uprights are halved on] In gluing up the mortise and tenon joints care must be exercised to set clamps out ready for use before the glue is applied so that the parts may be promptly drawn up in position.
It should not be overlooked that the outside face of each key mortise is cut on an angle, as illustrated.
The mortise and tenon joints give the essential stiffness and strength without requiring the use of heavy stock.
Mortise and tenon joints, draw-bored and pinned, were used at the corners.
This table may be made with mortise and tenon joints or with dowels as desired.
Illustration: Detail of the Sewing Table] Carefully mark the mortises in the legs, taking measurements for each mortise from the tenon which is to go into it.
Illustration: Piano Bench in Quarter-Sawed Oak] It should be noted that the mortise for the key in the stretcher must be laid out before the shoulders and cheeks of the tenon on which the mortise is made are cut off.
To make the mortises, first bore to depth with a bit 1/8 in, smaller than the width of the mortise and cut to the line with a chisel.
The doors are fitted by a tenon and mortisejoint at the ends.
For convenience in laying out the grooves for the rails and the mortise for the tenon on the stretcher, it is well to work a face edge upon each leg and allow this to remain until these joints have been made and the parts fitted.
Otherwise there would be no place to put the gauge in marking the sides of the mortise for the key.
Illustration: Complete Stand] Cut a tenon on the lower end of the upright and make a mortise in the center of the long crosspiece to receive the tenon.
These joints should be numbered so that each mortise may be cut to fit its own tenon.
This long bolt must originally have passed through the lower end of the handle, which, in turn, was fastened to the end of the plow beam by a tenon on the end of the beam, now broken off, passing through a mortise in the handle.
The edges of the tenon on the upper end of the standard where it goes through the mortise in the beam have been neatly beveled in a manner I have never seen before on any other plow.
To take the ends of the middle thwart, a mortise ¼ by 2 inches is cut in each gunwale member athwartships at exactly midlength, the length of the mortise being with the run of the gunwale.
The width of the tenon is, of course, 2 inches, to fit the mortise hole in the gunwale.
As the cross stone is solid, one end is placed in the mortise of one pillar and placed across to enter the mortise in the opposite one, the ends extending from two to four feet from the pillars.
A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.
A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees.
A wheel having a rim perforated to receive wooden cogs; the skeleton of a mortise gear.
An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made.
A Complete Line of Mortise Locks, particularly adapted for Inner Doors.
Mortise a square hole in this block, leaving the ends one half inch thick, one side one eighth, the other quite thin.
A bit of a common pin, or needle, is to go through the mortise and through the hole, a, of 135.
Mr. Richard Roberts, by some excellent modifications, enabled it to mortise or cut out the key-grooves in metal wheels, and this method soon came into general use.
Yea, and let it into the mortise fall And that shall make him brest.
Yea, and let it into the mortise fall, For then will it best stand.
Illustration: The Vise Jaw as It is Attached to the Bench and the Substitute Screw Arrangement] The substitute A for the screw is a rectangular piece of wood and is fastened with a tenon in a mortise cut in the vise jaw B.
The bottom of the mortisedrives the wedges as the tenon is forced in place.
The end of the tenon and the mortise is then covered with a piece of metal, fastened with screws as shown.
Joint for Mission Furniture The mortise for this joint is made in the usual manner, the only requirements being that the mortise is run through the piece, and the tenon is cut 1/8 in.
It is best to use a three-ply wood for making the back, but if this cannot be obtained, procure a dry piece of wood and mortise and glue strips to the ends to keep the wood from warping.
The tube rack is fastened to the back of this base by making a tenon on the lower end of each upright, and a mortise in the baseboard to receive it.
A small recess must be cut in the mortise so that the light from the lamp will shine directly on the inside of the plate over the keyhole.
It is not necessary to cut the mortise very deep; 1/4 in.
The cross bars and mortise must be a good tight fit, and a small, sharp chisel will enable the builder to make a neat job.
Illustration: The Small Truck will Greatly Assist the Carrying of a Heavily Loaded Suitcase] Light in a Keyhole Remove the lock and cut the mortise deep enough to admit a 3-volt battery lamp with a suitable socket attached.
How to Lock a Tenoned Joint A tenon placed in a blind mortise can be permanently fastened, when putting the joints together, by two wedges driven in the end grain of the wood.
The increase in the lumber bill is 23 percent in the plank frame and 53 percent in the mortise frame barn.
The lumber bills of the rectangular barns show an increase in cost of 28 percent for the plank frame and 54 percent for the mortise frame.
Figures 6 to 9 are side and end views, showing the detail construction and size of the timbers of the plank frame and mortise frame barns here figured.
And men go up to that Golgotha by degrees; and in the place of that mortise was Adam's head found after Noah's flood, in token that the sins of Adam should be bought in that same place.
And the cross was set in a mortise in the same rock.
The time has been when, if the farmer could not find his grindstone, all he had to do was to mortise a hole in the middle of a cheese, and turn it and grind his scythe.
Take a pretty face and mortise about a third of it for mouth, and it seems to us as though it is a great waste of raw material.
The mortise in the cover to the left was for the insertion of the hand when the book was held up for reading.
In the process of printing, each block was separately inked, but the red block was dropped in the mortise of the blue block before impression was taken.
The file is set into a mortise square with the block.
The reach plays back and forth rather loosely through a similar mortise in the other bolster on the rear sleigh.
The frame is made of good solid hardwood put together with mortise and tenon.
This link pushes up through mortise holes in the reach and is fastened with a wooden pin or key on top of the reach.
The heavy hardwood plank reach that connects the two bolsters is put through a mortise through the front bolster and is fastened rigidly by an extra large king-bolt.
This triangle has two sides equal, the erect ones as is evident, which are a palm long; the lower side is not of the same length, but is five digits long, and a mortise of the same shape is cut out of the segments.
Moreover, there is in every post, where it faces the shorter post, a mortise at a foot and a digit above the slot; in these mortises of the four posts is tenoned a timber which itself has four mortises.
The other ends of these two small cross-beams are mortised into an upright timber, six feet three palms long, and three-quarters wide and thick; the mortise is transfixed by wooden pegs.
