Pegged Mortises & Tenons -- Square Pegs in Round Holes

If you’re still laboring under the childhood delusion that you can’t put square pegs in round holes, this may convince you otherwise. For millennia, craftsmen have secured joints with wooden pegs called trenails or trunnels. In the last century, makers of Craftsman or Mission-style furniture have used them as both fasteners and decoration. They pegged mortise-and-tenon joints together by driving square pegs into round holes, leaving the heads visible for all to see. Nick shows how it’s done.

If you’d like to build the Craftsman bookcase that Nick shows in this video, the plans are included in his book, “Wood and Woodworking Materials,” part of the Workshop Companion woodworking encyclopedia. You can purchase this book (and plans) in PDF format from the Workshop Companion General Store at: https://workshopcompanionstore.com/pr...

Should you want to know more about the Craftsman style and the furniture it produced, one of the best books we have found is “In the Arts and Crafts Style” by Barbara Meyer (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA USA). She not only shows stunning photos (by Rob Gray) of Craftsman furniture and furnishings, she explains its origins and philosophy simply and succinctly. And to see some of the Craftsman pieces that are being produced by today’s woodworkers, visit the Crafters & Weavers Guild web site at https://craftersandweavers.com/ .

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