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Mortise and Tenon joints - Mortise and tenon joints are used in making furniture, door, window sashes, and chairs.
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Mortise-and-tenon joining had been used in the construction of Khufu's 150-foot-long royal ship at Giza, but had the technique been used to build the Abydos boats some four centuries earlier?
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Mortise and tenon joints; a plain mortise and tenon; an open dovetailed mortise and tenon (dovetailed halving); a dovetailed keyed mortise and tenon.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various
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Mortise and tenon joints for inside work may be united with glue.
Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. William Fairham
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_Mortise: A cavity cut into a piece of timber to receive the end of another piece called the _Tenon_.
American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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Mortise-mounted hardware relies on a large, rectangular metal box to hold its moving parts.
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Mortise and tenon joints and dovetailed drawers are used for long lasting durability and quality.
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Ilco Unican 215-04-51 Entry Lockset Inside Mortise by Ilco - $10 (nob hill)
craigslist | all for sale / wanted in SF bay area webmaster@craigslist.org 2010
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-- Open-Slot Mortise at 60 degrees.] [Illustration: Fig. 171.
Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. William Fairham
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