It happens every time: Just as I’m about to pound home a wedge into a chair’s through-tenon, a student will pipe up with the following question.
“When orienting the tenon, should the wedge go in parallel to the annular rings?” they ask. “Or perpendicular to the rings?”
My typical reply is: “The original makers of these chairs didn’t seem to pay attention …
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