DIYer and woodworker April Wilkerson shares her essential techniques and step-by-step guidance to help you craft durable, professional-grade mortise and tenon joints for your next shop project.

A mortise and tenon joint is one of the most basic and strong ways to join two boards together, but it takes a bit more time (and more tools) than some of the other joinery techniques we've discussed.

Simple mortise-and-tenon joints that meet at right angles can be made satisfactorily with power tools, but the ability to cut a mortise and tenon by hand opens up a much wider range of applications ...

Woodworker Sun Gang has spent most of his life learning and preserving the traditional mortise and tenon technique widely found in ancient Chinese buildings and furniture. Sun Gang tests the strength ...

The prepared Cf/(TiZrHfNbTa)C-SiC composites have an interface bonding mode similar to the mortise and tenon structure in ancient Chinese architecture. This bonding mode can fully exert the ...

Dezeen promotion: Brooklyn furniture brand Akron Street has launched a wooden coffee table held together by joints that require no metal hardware to assemble. Using a centuries-old woodworking ...

Sun Gang tests the strength of a model wooden-arch bridge he made by putting his weight on it in his workshop in Dingxi, Gansu province. ZHANG WENJING/XINHUA Gansu woodworker passes the art of ...