I'm thinking of putting together a presentation for the ww club or mortising options. I have multiple ways to make them. Comments or suggestions?

It would be different ways to do mortising and talk about:

• Chiseling (show how it's done)

• Drilling holes (e.g., with a drill press) and cleaning out with a chisel (show how it's done)

• Using a plunge router with a jig and bushing (live demo)  All above will also work for face mortising, not just edge

• Using a plunge router with an edge guide (live demo)

• Beadlock floating tenons (live demo)

• Beadlock to create a square mortise (show how it's done)

• Mortising machine (live demo)

• and if we can get someone else, since I don't have one, Domino and/or Kreg Edge  (I think a friend has a Domino and I can draft him)

Follow with a brief discussion on making tenons.  Tenoning jig on table saw (commercial and shop-built), band saw, and floating tenons.  Make the mortises first, then cut tenons to fit.

you could also add double mortise with floating tenons (can be handy when the tenon piece is not long enough to make a integral tenon).

That reminds me of haunched tenons on rail and stile construction.

I could also add biscuit joints and biscuit joints with two biscuits, together or separated.

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by kmealy

Sounds like a great demo.

Good to include haunched tenons, I routinely do those on frame and panel stuff so that I can cut panel grooves on the frame stiles easily with the table saw.

I sometimes do quick and dirty tenons on the table saw with repeat cuts like for the tenon shoulder - like if I'm just doing a few tenons and I don't want to set up the tenon jig for some reason. It can be less accurate when the shoulder is also done this way, but it is quick and nicely repeatable within the precision range of the setup. I've seen it done also with a blade change to a dado for hogging out the tenon, but if I have more than a couple to do I just do it another way like setting up the tenon jig. Sometimes the tenon jig is set up for another operation and I don't want to change it just yet (I use it a lot on the router table when making grips and might be in the middle of a run of 100 when I take a break to do the tenons for something else).

Come to think of it, there are probably almost as many ways to make a tenon as a mortise!

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by JWD

This may help Keith.

https://thepatriotwoodwiki.org/Mortise-and-Tenon

Just remembering my teaching days...

Do you have a presentation time limit? Depending on your audience's experiences/knowledge, you may not have enough time to cover that much material adequately.

18 minutes ago, John Morris said:

This may help Keith.

https://thepatriotwoodwiki.org/Mortise-and-Tenon

thanks!

10 minutes ago, lew said:

Just remembering my teaching days...

Do you have a presentation time limit? Depending on your audience's experiences/knowledge, you may not have enough time to cover that much material adequately.

Usually 60-90 minutes. The stuff on tenons can be cut or cut short if needed.

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by kmealy

You may want to present a housed mortise and tenon joint. Danl

42 minutes ago, Danl said:

You may want to present a housed mortise and tenon joint. Danl

What exactly do you mean by that?

1 hour ago, kmealy said:

What exactly do you mean by that?

The beam (1st tenon) and tenon (2nd tenon) are housed inside the two mortises. Danl