tenon

Corinthian leather, solid mahogany frame with what I believe are hand-cut mortise and tenon joints pinned with oak.

I mean, sometimes these mortise and tenon joints get wobbly.

No, the boards weren't attached by mortise-and-tenon joints in the same oak, but by strips of soft wood that my tool could pick away at.

The interesting thing about this ship, as opposed to North European ships, is that it was made with mortise-and-tenon and it was held together with rope.

What do you know from mortise and tenon?

Corinthian leather, solid mahogany frame with what I believe are hand-cut mortise and tenon joints pinned with oak.

I mean, sometimes these mortise and tenon joints get wobbly.

No, the boards weren't attached by mortise-and-tenon joints in the same oak, but by strips of soft wood that my tool could pick away at.

The interesting thing about this ship, as opposed to North European ships, is that it was made with mortise-and-tenon and it was held together with rope.

What do you know from mortise and tenon?

Greek and Roman ship builders in Egypt, once the trade with India opened up, devised a special way of constructing the ships in which they made the skin first with those interlocking joints... mortice and tenons and a dowel through,

It's quarter-sawn zebra wood adjoined by floating tenons to the black walnut corner posts. Finished with a wiping varnish that's a secret Swanson family recipe.

Greek and Roman ship builders in Egypt, once the trade with India opened up, devised a special way of constructing the ships in which they made the skin first with those interlocking joints... mortice and tenons and a dowel through,

It's quarter-sawn zebra wood adjoined by floating tenons to the black walnut corner posts. Finished with a wiping varnish that's a secret Swanson family recipe.