mortise
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If not, then you may have to set the hinge plate deeper in its mortise.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2020
Woodwork with mortise and tenon joints, original and restored hardware and tile-faced fireplaces are found throughout the nearly 6,000 square feet of living space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2020
But Andrew Baren, the president of Katonah Architectural Hardware, recommended using a mortise latch, which is not only more resilient, but can be made with stronger springs to support heavier door levers.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2019
Thick hand-hewn oak beams connected with slotted and tabbed mortise and tenon joints provide the bones of the building, which has deliberately been left unfurnished to showcase its construction.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2015
I see new words that sound cool like dado and kerf and tenon and mortise.
From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine
Mark out and cut the mortises in the top to receive the tenons on the end pieces.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
This insures getting the mortises all the same height.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
Another method of securing the teeth in the mortises is to dovetail them at the small end and drive wedges between them, as shown in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Clamp all four pieces on a flat surface with the bottom ends even, then lay out the mortises for the rails and panels on all four pieces at once with a try-square.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
Table Complete The shelf should be finished on the top side and the four edges, and the corners cut out to fit the mortises in the table legs.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
There was the strange commercial released by his loyal sponsor Nike, in which a rigor mortised Mr. Woods received counsel from the disembodied voice of his late father, Earl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2010
Smoothly mortised and joined by Director Ted Tetzlaff and Producer Frederic Ullman Jr., The Window emerges as a fast little thriller full of grade A qualities.
From Time Magazine Archive
This consists of two beams fifteen feet long, three palms wide, and two thick, mortised into the crane-post, and they protrude a cubit from the back of the crane-post and are fastened together.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
America stood foremost in carriage wheels of best materials and beautiful workmanship, bent rims, turned and finished spokes, mortised hubs, steel tires, business and farm wagons, carts and baby carriages.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
The other ends of these two small cross-beams are mortised into an upright timber, six feet three palms long, and three-quarters wide and thick; the mortise is transfixed by wooden pegs.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
They were second-hand when they went into the Wheeler building, for there were in them the marks of mortising that had no reference to the present structure.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Winthrop Packard
This will necessitate care in mortising and tenoning the side rails so as to get good fits for the shoulders The bevel square will be needed in laying out the shoulders of the tenons.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
The canvas is now tacked on the end pieces and the pieces given one turn before placing the mortising together.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
These included "Planing, moulding, rabbeting, grooving, mortising, and sawing, both in coarse and fine work, in curved, winding, and transverse directions, and shaping wood in complicated forms."
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
After this the chiseling out or mortising can be proceeded with.
From The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. by Horace Petherick
