The father of colonial furnishing

[ironhat]

I was reading an article on Highland Woodworking's website about Wallace Nutting without whose collecting and presentation colonial furniture would have vanished. It's a brief article and I think you will enjoy it. Now, when you get to the listing of practices at the bottom go to #5 and define 'draw bore'. Is that an old term for a screw?

[crokett]

That was an interesting read.

Link that explains draw bore:
http://www.woodworkingtips.com/etips/etip09.html

I've heard it called something else. An alternative is to cut a through tenon and drill a hole in it that sits at the face of piece with the mortise, then drive a wedge-shaped peg through the hole. The principle is the same - the tenon is drawn up tight but the advantage is the piece can be knocked apart if needed.

[cabinetman]

It's a very strong joint, sometimes called a "pegged tenon".
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[herb fellows]

There's a pretty good, though rather long and involved, explanation with illustrations here:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...Js6g8Aaq-qytDw

[SARGE..g-47]

I executed 4 pinned tenons on a crochet-lamp table about a week ago. There is a distinct difference in a draw bore tenon and a pin. A pinned tenon is just that... a hole cut through the tenon with a pin inserted to insure that the tenon will hold if the glue fails.

In a draw bore the hole is cut forward so when the pin or wedge is place it wil draw it up tight. You don't see many these days with advanced glues. If you have ever done any old time timber-framing (pretty much gone with the wind for the most part) you would be very familar with draw bores as when you are working with large timbers... you simply can't use your K body to tighten up the joint and then drill to pin it. It was probably one of the main joints used by timber-framers along with a bridles or what I call saddle joints.

[germdoc]

I like the quote from that article: "Just because people are dead, it doesn't follow that they were stupid."

[leehljp]

One of my woodworking friends over here taught me a tennon joint that doesn't release. I do not know the correct terminology in English but I will try to describe it in simple terms.

Make a tennon, make the morticing hole at the bottom a little wider than the entrance. On the tennon end, split it; add a very thin wedge. AS the tennon is inserted, the wedge will expand the end and you have a joint that will hold without glue.

This is similar to the wedges that are added to hammer and axe heads to expand the end of the handle to keep it tight.

[SARGE..g-47]

One of my woodworking friends over here taught me a tennon joint that doesn't release. I do not know the correct terminology in English but I will try to describe it in simple terms.

Make a tennon, make the morticing hole at the bottom a little wider than the entrance. On the tennon end, split it; add a very thin wedge. AS the tennon is inserted, the wedge will expand the end and you have a joint that will hold without glue.

This is similar to the wedges that are added to hammer and axe heads to expand the end of the handle to keep it tight.

When you do a through tenon and split the end to add wedges Lee.. that is simply a wedged tenon. The joint you refer to is really a wedged tenon with the exception that the wedges are hidden as the mortice is not through nor the tenon. I call it a hidden wedge tenon. I have only seen it used on one project in the U.S. back in the late 70's or early 80's.

I got interested in the building of the Icabon (sp) Steakhouse here in Atlanta one day when I paused to watch the carpenters. So interested I ask and got a week off to watch them build. The carpenters were brought in from Japan an used basically traditional Japanese joints to build the building. This is one of the joints I saw cut and used as there were many very elaborate joints as you probably know. All were hand cut.

I did see a few carpenters learn to adopt to the back of a pick-up truck tail-gate for a work-bench in lieu of a flat board on the ground. I also saw about the whole crew get very excited when the U.S. foreman would bring chili dogs and french fries from the Varsity Resturant which is the worlds largest drive-in resturant across from Ga. Tech.. Those guys could scarf down some chili dogs.. they had smiles on their face when they arrived and bigger smiles when they got their hands on them. ha.. ha...

So... I got to see some superb Japanese joints executed I had never seen and they got a taste of some traditional southern fast food which was obvious they loved. Win - Win!