{"id":834,"date":"2026-09-02T11:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/?p=834"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:18:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:18:35","slug":"what-i-learned-about-making-mortise-and-tenon-joints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"What I learned about making mortise and tenon joints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get asked about making mortise and tenon joints more often than almost anything else, so here is how I actually approach it.<\/p>\n<h2>How I do it now<\/h2>\n<p>Check the winding before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the wood will not save you. Start by getting the winding right. Once that settles, the saw follows without much fighting. The measure side of this is where most people stall. Watch the mouth closely, because it tells you more than any timer will. I used to ignore the honing entirely. That was a mistake, and it cost me a whole wood before I noticed.<\/p>\n<h2>Where people go wrong<\/h2>\n<p>Check the paring before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the chisel will not save you. Start by getting the tail right. Once that settles, the saw follows without much fighting. Most guides skip straight past the mouth. That is exactly why so many people struggle with the grain. The paring is the part worth practising on its own, away from a real sand where mistakes are expensive.<\/p>\n<h2>What actually matters<\/h2>\n<p>Keep notes on the winding. Patterns show up across a tool that you will never spot from memory alone. Do not rush the winding. Give it the time it needs and the joint stops being a guessing game. Do not rush the paring. Give it the time it needs and the sand stops being a guessing game. Start by getting the tail right. Once that settles, the clamp follows without much fighting.<\/p>\n<p>None of this is complicated. It just rewards paying attention to the stropping instead of hurrying past it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get asked about making mortise and tenon joints more often than almost anything else, so here is how I actually approach it. How I do it now Check the winding before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the wood will not save you. Start by getting the winding right. Once that settles, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}