Easy Angled Tenons
Router jig simplifies complex chair joinery.
With narrow parts, angled legs, and lots of stress, the joints that hold a chair together have a big job to do. Jeff Miller suggests making angled tenons and straight mortises, which is easier to tackle than the other way around. Since the mortise is square to the workpiece, you can cut it as you normally do. For the angled tenon, a router jig makes the job easier. A sturdy support and a sliding template are the keys to the jig’s success.
Chair joinery is a challenge. Many of the joints are angled, and all of them are subjected to powerful stresses when the chair is in use. To contend with these issues, I almost always choose the mortise-and-tenon joint. If the joints are angled, I prefer to cut straight mortises and then angle the tenons.
The tricky part is cutting the angled tenons. But the jig presented here,…
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It would be nice to have a video showing the jig being used.
this is such an interesting artcle, and it offers what looks like an incredibly useful jig. But, without a video is is hard to see exactly what the author is doing
Larry Beuchley teachers router joinery at Santa Fe Community College. He has designed a jig for tenons and mortises that is even more functional than Miller's jig.
I am trying to find a way to paste pictures of it, but no luck so far.
See my post in the members section showing Larry Beuchley's jig with photos and description of how to use it.
you don't even find much on chairmaking on youtube.
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