| 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. | |
