Scott Brown here and today's exciting episode I try and do a mortise and tenon joint and also I
get a little delivery from YouTube hopefully that won't matter because today is the second round of
Japanese joinery so while I have every intention to renovate houses this year and potentially even
build a brand new house I also want to do my own furniture and so while I consider what kind of
furniture that may be I'm practicing techniques that might help me do a good job of the furniture
now have you watched the first episode where I tried some Japanese joinery you'll know where I'm
getting a lot of my Japanese runner ideas from but also one more thing that we know look out before
this episode is over I got a package from YouTube so have a look at that a bit later here's all the
joins I did here still sitting there and I've got some more cedar here I'm going to use today
and lift it be light
when you consider joins that might be useful for building furniture I figured a mortise and tenon
joint would be a good one to start with I try to do one back in Scotland and there's a little bit
rough so let's see we can improve that and let's just have fun anyway now there's all
these types of Tenon's here I'm just going to do a normal tenon so we don't really need that
now in an effort to avoid that tear out there I've picked up a couple of things
this thing here is a weed Japanese describing that it's probably another word for and this
is a marking gauge I already had a marking gauge but this one here it's got twin blades
and they like knife blades yeah what that does is it cuts the top layer of wood fibers that
go across here and therefore when you cut the deeper cut with the saw you're
not picking up this top layer of wood fibers because it's already being cut
all of this is coming off and that is staying there
the teeth on this one seemed to have a bit more bite so that is a rough cut
of the tenon silly and tighten it up inverter well at this we don't
plan on quitting my dad job anytime soon this isn't my fault they're renovating
and building houses but the schools will lend themselves to one another own feel
we have a tenon now we need a mortise for this to go into and I'm going to take the advice of
people who commented on the last video and trace the tenon so I get a snug fit
of course I don't do it completely by hand
right it's that whole stops the timber from splitting now I have to cut down to it
yeah all right there goes unlike that now this is the moment where
you lock the tenon into the mortise those cuts were to allow for these
wedges no tapped the wedges in pulling it in the more you squint the bittern looks
salad salad there we have it a bit of an improvement compared to the one that I didn't
eat a brew I'll pop that up there but still a long way to go hey I'm wedged mortise-and-tenon
I might cut flush now actually no I'll leave a like that this might say more about me than it
does the joint oh you barely hear it crack that is solid now I got this in the mail a
couple of days ago and I've been dying to open it but I wanted to do it so you guys can see it
basically YouTube gave out a series of awards or plaques or little things to say congratulations
on reaching a milestone first milestone they do that for is 100,000 subscribers
so it sound like a little pizza box essentially packaged with great care by Rick thanks Rick
no they seemed a little little with it as well presented the Scott Brown carpentry for passing
100,000 subscribers there's a bit of cool so it looks like it's a brushed aluminum they call it
a silver award and then it's got this mirror that you can see my van and I can thank you
guys for this following the channel for the last couple of years this is a huge I'm really thankful
like you guys don't have to watch this there's so many things you can watch out there and you
take the time out of your day to watch my videos I appreciate it I really do this actually isn't
my first play button this is my first Youtube play button look at that made out of a boat opine which
is a type of pine that has been stained throughout the whole timber so no matter where you cut it you
still see the stain so I got this for Christmas of 2018 from my girlfriend Jessica who made this she
had access to a CNC machine and yeah cuddle this out she called this my celebration for
25,000 subscribers which is where the channel was at the time it's almost the exact same size