What does mortise and tenon mean in woodworking?

Tenoning is the process of making two parts of an object that are joined together using a concave-convex method.

When making wood or bamboo objects, a special concave and convex part is made to join two pieces of material. The protruding part is called the tenon, and the concave part is called the mortise. Mortise and tenon is divided into bright tenon and dark tenon, bright tenon can see the fixed point, dark tenon fixed point is hidden, more beautiful.

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Handmade tenon is a valuable treasure left to us by our ancestors, there is no machine tool to make tenon and mortise have to rely on hand to complete. With the continuous development of science and technology, now specializing in manual mortise and tenon less and less, on the one hand, the reason is also due to the labor is too expensive;

On the other hand, it is also because of handmade mortise and tenon on the skill requirements are very high, can be quiet apprenticeship has become less and less. Compared to purely handmade mortise and tenon, solid wood tenoners are much more efficient and accurate.

Source:Baidu Encyclopedia - Tenon