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AndyT wrote:I thought wedges outside were normal, but it looks like you prefer to split your tenons with wedges, is that what you mean?
Just4fun wrote:AndyT wrote:I thought wedges outside were normal, but it looks like you prefer to split your tenons with wedges, is that what you mean?
Whenever I have used wedged tenons I have cut a saw kerf down the tenon and inserted the wedge there. I feel that is stronger and would be stronger in this joint also ... but how would you cut the saw kerf? The outside parts of the bridle joint mean your saw could not get at the tenon. So it seems to me that the wedges have to be outside the tenon, but I don't really see why the wedges are needed at all if the M&T are properly cut.
AndyT wrote:I'd be very interested if anyone has experience of the bridle/M&T joint and any tips on how to set it out and make it.
AndyT wrote:Trevanion, I wonder if autocorrect has mangled your post somehow?
Cabinetman wrote:Crikey Andy, I haven’t seen one of those cramps in ....well since I was at school! But they obviously do the business.
Coming on nicely.
I have a supply of Venetian blind slats – white ones made in wood and like you I find them incredibly useful for all sorts of things.
AndyT wrote:I also admit to not being the tidiest woodworker...
AndyT wrote:.........Mike, I wonder if you are thinking of the pairs of cast iron cramp heads - they are really useful too, and I have a few pairs, just in case.
Mike G wrote:AndyT wrote:.........Mike, I wonder if you are thinking of the pairs of cast iron cramp heads - they are really useful too, and I have a few pairs, just in case.
No, no, they were all wooden, with steel straps.
AndyT wrote:Mike G wrote:AndyT wrote:.........Mike, I wonder if you are thinking of the pairs of cast iron cramp heads - they are really useful too, and I have a few pairs, just in case.
No, no, they were all wooden, with steel straps.
That sounds like something that could be easily made - were they like this at all (but with a wooden threaded part)?
That's from a 1929 French catalogue - https://archive.org/details/auxminesdes ... loguea1929 - page 26 and they just need a beam with some notches underneath. If not, any chance of a diagram, when you have a minute?
Trevanion wrote:Nice to see the political name brother's Fret Saw in action!
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