Travis Johnson
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I normally try to stay positive and not reduce myself to complaining or whinning too much, but has any one seen the new issue of Wood Magazine and the section they call "Skill Builders?"
If you haven't, its just an oxy-moron this month. They go into great detail (2 full pages) on how to make a screwed butt joint look like a through mortise joint.
The thing of it is, with all the accurate drilling they describe, the layout and all that, it would be just as easy to use a real through mortise and tennon. In fact I think it would be easier to do the real Mortise and tennon than to go through the process of making the same thing, but on a shortened scale.
I could see some guy sending in his method of doing this, but this was in a monthly section called Skill Building and written by the staff. Please! I always considered wood to be for the beginner type woodworkers and I have a real problem with this article. I just think its sending the wrong message to woodworkers that don't really know better.
If you haven't, its just an oxy-moron this month. They go into great detail (2 full pages) on how to make a screwed butt joint look like a through mortise joint.
The thing of it is, with all the accurate drilling they describe, the layout and all that, it would be just as easy to use a real through mortise and tennon. In fact I think it would be easier to do the real Mortise and tennon than to go through the process of making the same thing, but on a shortened scale.
I could see some guy sending in his method of doing this, but this was in a monthly section called Skill Building and written by the staff. Please! I always considered wood to be for the beginner type woodworkers and I have a real problem with this article. I just think its sending the wrong message to woodworkers that don't really know better.