Originally Posted by
Bryan Hall
Just got home from an Egyptian exhibit at the Portland art museum. What joint held the sarcophagus together? Floating tenon and mortise. Looked a little loose after 3000 years but still functional.
That actually doesn't surprise me...whether or not one has rudimentary or really nice tools, it's pretty easy and fast to make mortises on either side of a joint and fabricate a piece of material to fit in both simultaneously. For a container, this method works pretty well, IMHO.
There are so many ways to do jointery. Most methods, when done carefully, can yield more than acceptable strength, even if one might have an edge in extreme conditions.
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