Cutting tennons

Open tenons/slip joint on the table saw.

Invisible tenons table saw for the shoulders, cheeks
on the band saw or table saw. Depends on the length
and weight of the board being tenoned.

Dado blade on the radial arm saw. Safe and true.

-- Nils, So. Central MI. Wood is honest.Take the effort to understand what it has to tell you before you try to change it.

Tenon jig on table saw or I have a home made horizontal mortiser, that also cuts tenons, that I use on long boards. When all else fails, I mark them out and use a Japanese tenon saw.

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Tenoning jig on tables.

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shop made tenoning jig on the tablesaw

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tenon jig on table saw, rides the fence

As mentioned…length, width, depth and quantity have a factor into the method.. Just a few smallers ones I will nibble away at TS. More quantity small ones, a tennon jig. Long boards SCMS and band saw/hand saw combo. Mortises on benchtop mortising maching unless too big. Then forstner and chisels. Many ways to skin that cat.

I don’t do a ton of mortise and tenon work, so I make mine on the router table and cut the mortises with a router as well.

A little quick work with a rasp and my shoulder plane and the square tenon will have its rounded shape for the mortise.

I may get a tenon jig for the TS one of these days if I continue with much furniture work, but for now the routers work very well for this.

I use a slot mortiser for the mortises, then square them up. For the tenons I use the router table. I cut all the pieces to the exact length I need including the tenons. Then I use a marking gauge to mark out the shoulders. I cut all but 1/64 – 1/32” up to the shoulder. I fit it the thickness first then width. After it fits well I trim off the extra material using the marking gauge line as reference with chisels. Might sound like extra work, but it ends up perfectly square as long as the stock is square. I aways seem to end up with it not ending up perfect without using a marking gauge. The TS seems to have chipping and the router table and TS seem to end up with a corner or two slightly off.

I actually cut all of my Tenons by hand. they are really quite easy. I use a Japanese saw for a really fine cut. And for the Mortises, it just depends sometimes I will just chisel them, other times I will use a drill and then clean up with a chisel and rasp.

-- Steve - Wasilla, Alaska

have a look at this :
http://paulsellers.com/2011/12/mortise-and-tenon-under-10-minutes/

-- Sylvain, Brussels, Belgium, Europe - The more I learn, the more there is to learn

I like a dado blade on the table saw. The reason for this—- you never have to stand a workpiece on end to pass it through the blade. With a dado blade, the workpiece is always flat on the tablesaw.
If you use a sacrificial fence and a wide dado set, you can make very clean cuts. Works great for through mortise and tenons.

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