Split-cutting tenons

Interesting technique, thanks for showing us.

-- Just because you’ve always done it that way doesn’t mean it’s not incredibly stupid.

Thank you Paul.

-- ~Tony

thanks for the reminder of it ….. last time I used that tecnic for a tenon
was as a 8 grader in school :-)

Dennis

Hi Dennis,
Nothing new under the sun, eh!

-- Paul Sellers, UK http://paulsellers.com/paul-sellers-blog

Brilliant sir. Good to practice this and read the grain so you know why wood reacts the way it does and take precautions when using the big guns.

-- If you can dream it, I can do it!

yes there was …... as a schoolboy I never got the graindirection explanation to it
or wasn´t hearing after the teacher in that minut ….. boys are boys as you know :-)

Dennis

Thanks for introducing us to this great technique Paul. I wish I had just 10% of your woodworking skills.

-- Mike, American in Norway

This is a new technique to me – so thank you! I am definitely going to give it a try. It certainly looks easy when you do it :-)

-- Kay - Just a girl who loves wood.

Thanks for sharing this Paul, another great video. You said you use this 90% of the time, I’m curious about the other 10%. Can you share an example of when you would not use this?

-- Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgement.

Most knots make splitting unlikely to be successful and so too the extension of grain emanating from and beyond knotted areas but knot free. You can pare this grain doing it as shown in the last example in the video, incrementally. Sometimes, and I didn’t have a good example there for the video when we filmed, some woods have reverse or spiral grain. This is difficult to split and sometimes difficult to pare. These are rarer examples because we most often avoid knots in jointed areas but sometimes we cannot do that because of wood quantity or length. In other words the awkward grain would be non-compromising, hidden in the joint and the surrounding visible wood and would be hard just to not use.

-- Paul Sellers, UK http://paulsellers.com/paul-sellers-blog

That really takes woodworking technique to a whole other level for me. More, please. Thanks

-- david roberts, spinning Tales from Topographic Oceans, no, really.

Always enjoy your videos and teachings. Thanks for sharing.

-- In the end, when your life flashes before your eyes, will you like what you see?

Another great vodeo tutorial Paul. Thanks for posting it!

-- Mauricio - Woodstock, GA - "Confusion is the Womb of Learning, with utter conviction being it's Tomb" Prof. T.O. Nitsch

Thanks Paul, for responding to my question. I will definitely be able to use this on future projects and it seems to be a time saver too.

-- Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgement.

Great Paul.
Best thoughts,
Mads

-- Mad F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking.