Posts in the «techniques» Category

• Tongue & Groove Planes : Match Planes

Tongue and Groove is a method of joining boards that predates modern wood glue, biscuits and doweling jigs.  I’ve seen Norm Abrams demonstrate how he creates tongue & groove using a table saw with a dado set installed, and I’ve seen others use a router table with a tongue and groove pair of router bits […]

• Making a Mortise

As I’ve said before, a large part of timber framing centers around making round holes into rectangles. It usually starts with a drill to get rid of most of the wood. Then you finish up with a chisel in one hand and a mallet in the other. Here is a video of someone using large […]