mortise wall
mortise wall
What's the thinnest you'd be comfortable making a mortise wall on a healthy piece of briar?
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Re: mortise wall
That depends?bscofield wrote:What's the thinnest you'd be comfortable making a mortise wall on a healthy piece of briar?
If the grain runs along the shank, 1/8" minimum. Hell, even an 1/8" might give me pause. If it's cross-grained, you can go a little thinner - sometimes.
If the goal is to make a pencil-shanked pipe, I usually go for a smaller mortis/tenon - 1/4" usually.
Re: mortise wall
1/4" is my standard right now... What's your's? I need to increase the size of my draught hole, which i've done a few times now but I'm not sure that it's safe at 1/4". Is 5/32" safe on a 1/4" tenon?KurtHuhn wrote:That depends?bscofield wrote:What's the thinnest you'd be comfortable making a mortise wall on a healthy piece of briar?
If the grain runs along the shank, 1/8" minimum. Hell, even an 1/8" might give me pause. If it's cross-grained, you can go a little thinner - sometimes.
If the goal is to make a pencil-shanked pipe, I usually go for a smaller mortis/tenon - 1/4" usually.
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