Mortise and tenon construction, why is it used so little now?

What is mortise and tenon, a simple sentence is: a yang and a yin called "a mortise and tenon," the combination of yin and yang is called "mortise and tenon joints" la. But the Chinese woodwork mortise and tenon is not so simple, it needs to correspond to the original characteristics of wood, different wood and wood connection, different mortise and tenon structure. This kind of wood active construction and can be disassembled and assembled workmanship tenon and mortise and tenon is the real - Chinese mortise and tenon.

1, there are most of the mortise and tenon is very difficult to be shaped mechanically by making simple molds. This results in nothing more than a rise in cost

. The time cost and labor cost of structurally sound and beautiful zongjiao tenon is currently most factories are unwilling to bear.

This, in addition to expensive mahogany furniture can keep these skills.

2, have to admit that now only a very small number of carpenters still have these mortise and tenon production techniques. Ming furniture factories, a

Tenth-grade carpenter's salary in 1.2W - 2W ranging. Even for a tenth-grade carpenter, it takes half a day for him to make a set of zongjiao tenons.

While mortise and tenon is also mostly machine-assisted and semi-handmade, the techniques and tools for full handmade work still need to be precisely mastered.

Now there are too few apprentices, not enough youth, whether it is furniture workers or carvers, the factory is all the older gentleman in the operation,

Produced by the speed of the speed is certainly not up.

3, since the cost of mortise and tenon is so high, and mortise and tenon on the hardness of the material or the value of the material requirements are very high. Either hard as mahogany, to

Well as gold nan. These materials in order to carry the value of mortise and tenon, further in the market to see the price is prohibitive

Mahogany furniture. It is understandable that we are farther away.

4, mortise and tenon structure means that the furniture is not removable, can not use flat pack, must be the whole furniture box transportation, upstairs; mortise and tenon

The ultimate purpose is not removable, at least not at the beginning. Any reasonable mortise and tenon should be reversible, because the material properties of the wood itself

must all be taken into account for repair or replacement parts. For example, the wooden structures of buildings are all removable. The purpose of mortise and tenon is to

link and stabilize for strength.