Mortise And Tenon Step Stool

My finished stool measured out to be about 16 long roughly 5 inches tall and 8 inches wide.

Mortise and tenon step stool.

Make a top down cut which will divide the tenon in two being careful not to exceed the shoulders. This creates the slot for a wedge. Listen for creaks and groans and watch for splits. Getting the stool together and apart again won t be easy.

Work carefully move slowly and be patient. Two sides contains the angled joints while the other two contained the straight ones. Position your clamps and slowly draw the stool together. In this instructable i will take you through a simple mortise and tenon based footstool.

Once the joint fits well remove the tenon piece and secure it perpendicular to the workbench. If you see the leading edge of the tenon splitting the top edge of a mortise upward either tap the split area down or trim the tenon. A few of the projects in this collection use only hand tools and other features include angled joinery curves and mortise and tenon joinery. This is a good starting project for myself and others if you are interested in making something using the mortise and tenon joint.

Mortise and tenon foot stool. Making the mortise and tenon s in this built there was a mix of straight mortise and tenon s and angled ones too. The projects and plans included below range from a bow arm stickley morris chair to a shaker single step stool.