How to make a Mortise and Tenon Joint - The Three Joints - | Paul Sellers 

Great detail and I love how you Center a lot of your lessons around your vice. This will improve my work greatly!! Thanks Paul.

thanks, dude for your mortise and tenon joinery tutorial video, I wait for another tutorial video from you.

Greatly appreciate your tutorial--skilled, experienced, patient, descriptive, easy to follow! One minor suggestion: while you are speaking about the tools and methods, please now and then describe the qualities/characteristics of the woods you are using: I am always wondering which woods are best for a project. Thanks!

Dear paul , I’ve watched this video countless times and have started successfully building the cabinets for my camper van, this video and yourself gave me confidence to try and i am so glad i did ! ...a new love for creating joinery ....mine didn’t look like yours ....but i was so happy with it ! I wanted to show everyone (luckily i resisted said urge ) . But a huge thank you to you . Kind regards Nick

Subscribed cos you have never have enough knowledge.

Yep, you’re spot on. It was instructive and something to aspire to. I could sense the satisfaction in the end success.

@Ricardo Landgrave If you focus on hand woodworking with Chisels, saws and hand plane you will build skills that the guys who only use machines will not have. If the world economy collapsed you would do work with the most basic tools they on the other hand will be dependent on the machines. When you finish with a hand plane there are no machines that can get even close to that level of finish.

@@bighands69 I need to get back to woodworking but no longer have the space and my corporate call center job takes most of my time and sanity :/

@@ricardolandgrave2532 Look at some channels that have people who woodworked in their apartments. You could also look at doing outdoor woodwork. Do lots of small projects like dovetail box and that will build your skills. By the time you have done 100 small dovetail boxes you will feel like an expert.

spot on Ricardo.. honestly I see some of these workshops & a power tool for each procedure & I think, "I can't afford to do any of this".. This video has me motivated to step back & take another look at good old fashioned hand tools.. Is it me, or do the old techniques seem to produce an end result that far outlasts modern 'woodworking'?

I feel the same way, that was great!

always like to keep my audience Riveted.

I figured I’d just watch the first couple minutes. Now here we are 29 minutes later

@@Carl-LaFong1618 Nice one Sheriff!

When sawing the tenon - he says drop your hand....why is this preferred.. what does it do..? Thanks

those no. 7s are wonderful machines, love to get one to replace my homemade one

@@atlasshrugged9093 Purchase of a lifetime, solid ivestment!

Johannes no doubt there though I did just pick up a Stanley Liberty bell No.129

Thanks for this. Was looking using all the wrong search terms. lol

@@charlesthomas9294 Understandable, hehe! Google keeps making me reconfirm that I'm not a robot when I start getting uncommonly specific.

Fatabelly He has a video comparing the two chisels. The bevelled chisel cuts quicker.

lol

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Paul, i´m not a native english speaker and i can say that a well done english subtitles is big big help for us because it make easier find a translation on dictionaries. So, even when a lot of us do not speak english, good english subtitles are a big help. I wish making some spanish subtitles (i´ll try at least) in the future and thanks for share your knowledge!

Paul Sellers That’s a waste time on this time Because we can do hundreds of parts in half hour.

With only tools from aldi

I would ride that spaceship.

Stop talking bullshit man!!

Spruce is the preferred timber.

With no carpenter glue in sight.

Thank you.

👌

I hope you still enjoy the wood working.

Dicer328 Soon, it's coming.

Paul Sellers what type of mortise chisels are those?

totally agree

They gonna publish a book???? 😲😲 Yessss gonna buy 1.. 😖😖😖😍😍😍

True. They’re definitely dying sadly

You were lucky to have a school shop class! Not much of that going around these days. Too bad you didn't get any experience with the hand tools...probably because the teacher/instructor had none him/herself!

Jesus was a Carpenter probably because he’s British lol They have a way of explaining stuff in a very thorough detailed way that is the envy of the world lol. Of course you and I both know that being good at carpentry is a gift from God. Cheers mate and happy trails

Jake Gevorgian stellar!

@Peter Talbot Here's a huge collection of woodworking plans: WoodSun. xyz

Loved your comment. Thank you

I think the moral of your comment is; You get out what you put in? It's a wonderful lesson from your dad.

I am 51 and this is the first time i ever saw a manual router

@@laigocustoms4965 You can make your own with a bit of wood and a chisel and it works great.

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Yeah, started using that technique yesterday after watching this. As someone who has been woodworking for 2 months, I actually see the precision in my work increasing every day thanks to Paul.

Don't you mean rabbet? :)

Ooooo well played. A missed pun is a sad situation indeed.

Missed it by a hare?

A hair=a tiny thickness, less than a mm, not a hare which is a lagomorph.

+Jo Allan Whoosh...

Offshoreorganbuilder We can do that. I will put it on the agenda.

Paul Sellers Thanks! I'll look out for it.

Has the wedge video been made? (I could not find it)

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It's a cordless router.

I've also seen Rob Cosman pull one out occasionally.

So that's what they did before electricity! I wonder if the drills were manual too?

@@azul8811 I know you're joking but ... even today I have a "manual" drill in my toolbox for DIY stuff. There are times they are more convenient than a power drill. I have the simpler "hand drill" type, not a brace and bit.

@@stainlesssteellemming3885 Fully understood! I was just razzing the OP. I'm a boomer.

It's very calming using hand tools... I mean, good luck trying to make a bench using hand tools.. it'd take you forever. But something like a box, or something small and meaningful like a heirloom, you can't beat the satisfaction you get out of hand tools. Something about using chisels and planes.....

Ryan Jones I am gathering my tools now and practicing so when I retire in three years, start making artsy-fartsy stuff with them to sell at the local craft shows for fun and maybe a little profit.

I don't think very much of his time would be saved using power tools, he took the time to show us every detail, but the hand sawing does not take a lot of time, and remember he is assuming we don't have a pro workshop. Unlike many folks on youtube he does not have friends with a pro tools he can "borrow" I have seen a workbench my friend has made, its absolutely the opposite of this, there was no planing, no planning, and the wood supplier sent all the wood pre-sawn to size, which saves a lot of time. It's still a disaster from an aesthetic viewpoint as he did no hand planing, and used quite a few big nails, so all in all he took only a few hours to make it.

Mortise and tenon

That's in America

No, that's where $100+ end grain cutting boards and $1000+ epoxy river tables are made.

Honestly, without any criticism towards Mr. Sellers - he owns and uses hand tools that are collectively much more expensive than the average hobbyist's entire shop, including all electrical tools.

@@AGH331 but they have been collected over a career spanning 50 years

@@AGH331 The only potentially really expensive tool I saw was that beautiful manual router and it was optional. Beyond that he used two chisels, a plane, a knife, tenon saw, mortise gauge and a mallet. The most expensive tenon saw I could find online was about 80 Euro: the most expensive at my DIY store is a tenner. A Stanley plane at a box store is about 50, another tenner gets you a chisel set, and maybe another 20 total for the knife, mallet and gauge. It's worth spending on the saw. At the beginning you can get cheaper planes and chisels and tune them up on a stone: by the time you're ready to throw them you'll also be ready to invest in more expensive ones (or you'll be on your next hobby). So ... 160 quid to get started: how much was your chop saw? My similar basic set is now 40 years old. I started off with the cheapest I could find at the DIY store and (other than the saw) I'm still using them all.

I noticed that too

Furrane yah, that's why one of his shoulders isn't perfect on the finished joint. But very nice tutorial otherwise.

Yup! I say that too!

They're not tools but rather power machines. Also, they aren't necessarily faster nor more accurate than hand tools. Once you get set up and start working cutting this joint by hand, especially by Mr. Sellers, one is just as fast as power machines. Why else would many woodworkers and woodworking professional advocate hand tool use in many situations. Your comment just doesn't make sense.

the comment makes perfect sense. If you were to be in a position where a dozen such joints are required, a power TOOL will reduce the labour investment considerably. will it be as fine a finish, unlikely, but it doesn't have to be unless you're an artisan. so I say your comment was confrontational for no other reason than to imply you're thoughts on the subject are more valid than the OP's.

great work and attention to detail here Paul. Though I heartily second Ariel's comment, power tools are a blessing for a quick consistent if not superior result.

Of course. But: - if you want to use a router to cut your mortise, you need a jig to center the router base on the timber. Or a router table. And if you don't have either you need to build them first. Sure, once they are built they are reusable but until you don't have them you can't cut a mortise with a router. - you want to use a drill press. You need good, expensive forstner bits to start off. And you need to know how to use a chisel anyway to pair the sides of the mortise. - you want to cut your tenon with a circular saw. That's probably the easiest way lacking a table saw. But still you need to know how to use a chisel to pair the shoulders. All in all, learning how to cut these joints by hand will make you a better woodworker in any case. But if you only know how to work with power tools, you will be lost without them. Without then considering the cost factor.

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the "All Seeing Eye" LOL

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The old one eye confirmed.lol

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***** I have a blog almost ready ion this, Ian, and a video on it too. Selection and prepping. Keep following my blog.

Paul Sellers will do thank you Paul!

+Ian Atkinson There is a timber merchant in Wakefield selling all myriad of hardwoods from oak to iroko. Drop me a message and I'll give the name and address. Can't be more than 15 minutes away from Leeds centre.

+vtrmcs Do you know the name? I can look it up if so thanks!

+Ian Atkinson If you find any suppliers like that please share in here. I'm from Leeds aswell and couldn't find any yet!

+David Tetard Oak.