What's the difference between mahogany furniture carpentry and ordinary carpentry?

Mortise and tenon making is the most important aspect of traditional furniture, and it is also a compulsory course for traditional furniture carpentry. Only the technology that is qualified in the compulsory course is reasonable and exquisite.

There are dozens of tenons and mortises commonly used in mahogany furniture, such as grid tenon, shoulder tenon, dovetail joint, wedge tenon and so on. Reasonable selection and use of different tenons and mortises can make all parts of furniture cross-joint, flat joint, straight joint, horizontal and vertical joint, arc joint and so on.

According to different parts and different functional requirements, the methods have their own advantages, but there are rules to follow in the changes. After the middle of Qing Dynasty, different regions often have different methods and techniques, and many techniques have been lost due to historical reasons. So that when repairing old furniture, we often encounter some tenons and mortises that we have never seen before, which makes it impossible to remove them.

On the other hand, it shows the superb skills of senior technicians. Because of the unique tenon-mortise structure of traditional furniture and the technical characteristics of hitting the swim bladder with hands without turning, it is called unscientific science and has created a century-old immortal myth in the history of world furniture.

2. Clever technology and design structure

In woodworking technology, the treatment of structure and technology needs originality. We should have a reasonable structure, practice makes perfect and use it flexibly.

Mahogany furniture mostly adopts tenon-mortise structure to enhance the strain capacity of thin plates or some components, so as to avoid problems such as easy fracture and easy horizontal line opening. For the hollowed-out corners of some furniture, craftsmen skillfully used the method of 45-degree angle edge-preserving joint, and slotted the two thin plates separately, and then put them together after tenon joint. It not only avoids the risk that the insertion angle is easily broken due to hollowing out when using thin plates, but also provides the condition that both right-angle sides of the insertion angle can dig mortises. As long as the mortise is inserted, it can be well connected with the horizontal and vertical materials.