Wood moves. Accept this truth or fight your projects forever. Every board in your shop is responding to the humidity right now, swelling when moisture...

Western woodworking relies on glue and metal fasteners. Japanese joinery rejects both, achieving connections through precisely cut interlocking wood alone. These joints aren’t museum pieces...

Glue fails. Wood shrinks. Joints loosen over time. Every woodworker knows these truths, yet we keep gluing mortise and tenon joints and hoping for the...

Wedges in through tenons are about more than looks. Yes, the contrasting wood creates eye-catching detail. But the real magic happens mechanically: a properly wedged...

Through tenons announce themselves. Unlike their hidden counterparts, they extend completely through the mortised piece, showing end grain on the opposite face. When executed perfectly,...

If I had to choose one joint to teach every beginner, it would be the half-lap. No other joint provides such a favorable ratio of...

The bridle joint doesn’t get the respect it deserves. Walk into any woodworking forum and mention joinery, and you’ll hear endl

Miter joints look beautiful but hide a dirty secret: end grain glued to end grain creates one of the weakest bonds in woodworki

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