Mortise and Tenon Layout Templates: 3D Print Guides for Accurate Joinery Marking

A woodworking bench in bright light with a set of matte black 3D printed mortise layout templates fanned beside a piece of pale oak stock, a sharp

Introduction Ask a room of woodworkers where mortise and tenon joints go wrong and almost nobody blames the chopping. The joint fails earlier, at the pencil lines: a mortise marked a millimeter off-center, a tenon cheek line that wanders, shoulders that do not match from one side to the other. Saw and chisel simply obey … Read more