That's what I'd call Fox wedges as well ayjay. I thought it was because it was cunning as well. I don't think I've ever actually made that joint though. I always used to make them through if they were wedged, and use a bit of contrasting stuff for the wedges for show. That was on furniture though.ayjay wrote:I only know of the carpentry uses, but I've always thought they were called Fox Wedges to echo the Foxes cunning, as in my preferred use of them in a closed mortice; this makes it a stub tenon, but wedged - cunning, you see.marcusjkw wrote:
Why is it a fox-wedge though? Is it not just a wedge unless used in a specific way, i.e. fox-wedging a tenon?
Not my drawing, nicked from the web.
We always called steel wedges folding wedges FWIW. Handy for pulling gib head keys on bigger stuff.