Mortise And Tenon Step Stool

My finished stool measured out to be about 16 long roughly 5 inches tall and 8 inches wide.

Mortise and tenon step stool.

This creates the slot for a wedge. If you see the leading edge of the tenon splitting the top edge of a mortise upward either tap the split area down or trim the tenon. I am doing this with hand t. Two sides contains the angled joints while the other two contained the straight ones.

Getting the stool together and apart again won t be easy. Make a top down cut which will divide the tenon in two being careful not to exceed the shoulders. The projects and plans included below range from a bow arm stickley morris chair to a shaker single step stool. Once the joint fits well remove the tenon piece and secure it perpendicular to the workbench.

Position your clamps and slowly draw the stool together. Re insert the tenon and tap a wedge of equal width into the slot using a hammer. Mortise and tenon foot stool. The legs were joined with thru mortise and tenons and the tenons left proud and chamfered for aesthetics.

This is a good starting project for myself and others if you are interested in making something using the mortise and tenon joint. A few of the projects in this collection use only hand tools and other features include angled joinery curves and mortise and tenon joinery. Making the mortise and tenon s in this built there was a mix of straight mortise and tenon s and angled ones too.