I taught some guys how to make mortise and tenon joints today and snapped these photos of the mortise and tenon gauge I made back in 1986 out of a piece scrap brass. It saves lots of time and there is no trial and error testing of the tenon or mortise before you put them together. It looks like a tuning fork and actually rings like one. The principle of this tool is that it is a go-no-go gauge. Anything that the fork will fit over will fit in a hole that the other end will freely move in. This one is for a 1/4th-inch joint. If you make one of these, size the slot and probe to the chisel you always use to cut the mortise.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:20:07 +0000
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