That makes a lot of sense in drawer construction where you have a long
divider cross-grain to a the cabinet depth. Minimizing cross-grain
forces is certainly desirable. But I would have thought that the
cross-grain dimensions are so small in most M&T joints, particularly
with stub tenons, that the forces involved would be quite small. I guess
only gluing the shoulder end of the tenon helps prevent a gap developing
at the shoulder as she stile expands & contracts. Better safe than
sorry, I suppose.
Don
On 2022-06-19 11:18 a.m., Pete Bergstrom wrote:
> For any piece anticipated to experience large temperature and moisture
> swings (I'm not sure I can imagine something more extreme than a storm
> door), this makes a lot of sense to maximally manage the differential
> wood expansion to prevent joint failure.
>
> While it's not a storm door, I just did a glue-up last weekend of a
> couple of small drawer enclosures that used dados to hold the drawer
> separator boards, and I only glued one end of each joint (i.e., on the
> visible face; this left the other end of the joint to float a bit in
> the provided space. Therefore, I'll say I'm following the practice.
>
> Pete
> North of Seattle
>
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 10:05 AM Don Schwartz wrote:
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> I am looking through some old ww magazines, and came across an
> article
> on building storm doors by William Sinnott in Woodworking
> International.
> In it, he describes tenon glue-up for stub tenons with foxtail
> wedges as
> follows: "... enter the wedges and apply a good exterior glue to the
> half of the tenon nearest the shoulder. Then cramp up. It is bad
> practice to apply glue to mortises, for it is important only half
> of the
> tenon is glued." He doesn't explain why.
>
> Comments?
>
> Does anyone follow this practice?
>
> Don
>
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