A mortise and tenon joint is the method of joining by forming a solid rectangular projection in the one piece and cutting a corresponding cavity to receive it in the adjoining piece.
The cavity is called mortise and the solid projection is called the tenon. There are a great many modifications of this joint.
Angled mortise and tenon
Barefaced mortise and tenon joint
Beaded mortise and tenon joint
Blind mortise and tenon joint
Brace mortise and tenon joint
Chase mortise and tenon joint
Corner blind mortise and tenon joint
Corner through mortise and tenon joint
Double barefaced mortise and tenon joint
Double mortise and tenon joint
Double mortise and tenon miter joint
Dovetail tenoned mitre joint
Dovetailed and wedged mortise and tenon joint
Dovetailed and wedged stub mortise and tenon joint
Drawbored mortise and tenon joint
Fox wedged mortise and tenon joint
Gate mortise and tenon joint
Haunched mortise and tenon joint
Haunched mortise and tenon joint in table making
Housed mortise and tenon
Interlocked mortise and tenon joint
Keyed mortise and tenon joint
Long and short shouldered mortise and tenon joint
Loose mortise and tenon joint
Mortise and tenon joint for fencing
Mortise and tenon joint for rabbeted frame
Mortise and tenon joint with panel groove
Moulded frame mortise and tenon joint
Notched mortise and tenon joint
Oblique mortise and tenon joint
Pegged mortise and tenon joint
Round mortise and tenon joint
Secret tenoned miter joint
Self wedging mortise and tenon joint
Skewed mortise and tenon joint
Sloped haunched barefaced mortise and tenon joint
Sloped haunched mortise and tenon joint
Stub blind mortise and tenon joint
Stub mortise and tenon joint
Tenon with tongued and grooved shoulder
Through mortise and tenon
Tusk tenon joint
Twin mortise and tenon joint
Wedged mortise and tenon joint
Wheelwrights mortise and tenon joint
- Drawboring - Pinning the mortise and tenon joint
- Wedged mortise and tenon joint
- Keyed mortise and tenon joint
Tenon workpiece terminology
Mortise workpiece terminology
