Mortise and Tenon frames

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Does anyone know of a company who will make, a mortise and tenon frame? First time I've had a customer ask for that style.

Thanks,
Joe
 
Uncle Eli said:
it's not that hard to do yourself. http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=howTo&p=Build/TenonJig.html
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For the life of me Erik, I can not figure out what that jig is for.... and notice, they don't tell you how to cut a mortise? :kaffeetrinker_2:

There are no less than 35 Arts & Crafts producers of furniture here along the Left coast. New England there are probably at least that many and maybe more.... and in the Carolinas.... they're like breeding rabbits.

What you want, and what you want to spend are your only limiting factors.
 
Hi Joe

Mortice and tenon frames are actually very easy to make, check out tooled-up.com for their range of bench morticers, the Sealy ones work very well and are cost efficient. Trend routing make a very good jig if you have a router, dead easy to use and portable, I use one of these and can recommend it.

How big are the joins?

If this is no help, try a local joiner, it should be a bread and butter job for him and it will probably be quite cheap if this is a one off job.

Get a trend jig, it will be another string to your bow!

Hope this helps

Steve
 
I also found this one, it looks to be the Cadillac of M&T jigs. A little pricey for me though. Again, with my Woodmaster I have maxed out my toy budget for this year.
 
pamazon said:
my LJ rep just came in with a new line that is mortise and tenon joins, can't recall what they were called though :(
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I suspect you were looking at the new LJ spline frames. These use spline joints not mortise & tenon joints. There is a difference!

Mortise and tenon joints consist of putting a square peg in a square hole.
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A spline is a thin strip glued into grooves cut into the pieces being joined, these are used to fasten panels together and to fasten the mitered corners of picture frames.

image.gifsplinejoint


image.gifmiter%20spline
 
Please stop doing this to me :)

I am finding myself more and more wanting to go down the hand made by me frame route. I just wished that more of my clientele would appreciate that kind of work and be willing to pay for it.
 
Thanks for all the great links and information. I don't have the WxL of the picture but it was a photo of a large sailboat the customer owns. He got the idea for these types of frames after looking on the Holton Studio site. I think he wants these for a song (that's a tune I can't carry).

I quoted him a price of 59 dollars each for a couple of 11x14 black frames for another job and he couldn't grab his art fast enough. Has the money for a huge sailboat but.... well you all know the story.

Joe
 
CAframer said:
I suspect you were looking at the new LJ spline frames. These use spline joints not mortise & tenon joints. There is a difference!

Mortise and tenon joints consist of putting a square peg in a square hole.
image.gifmortise_tennon


A spline is a thin strip glued into grooves cut into the pieces being joined, these are used to fasten panels together and to fasten the mitered corners of picture frames.

image.gifsplinejoint


image.gifmiter%20spline
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you are correct Andrew, my bad!! thanks for the images, it makes it very clear.
 
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