How to Make a Tenoned Mitre | Paul Sellers

A tenoned mitre is a strong corner joint alternative to a mitre that excels for picture or mirror frames and the like. Paul’s technique for cutting a tenoned mitre uses the router to guarantee accuracy and gives nice crisp joint lines.
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[@jameswilliamjones]

I like how he realizes and fixes his mistakes with no ego.

[@John-jc1ig]

When I’m stressed and need to relax and recenter myself I watch Paul’s videos.

[@JeepTherapy]

I find that showing people even the most experienced woodworkers don’t do everything perfect on the first cut, like so many videos do, makes for great education on patience. “Measure twice, cut once, pare as much as needed.” Thank you Mr. Sellers for this 40 minute video of real time expectancy towards the minimum time it takes to make a precise mitered tenon joint, and not some 8 minute clip of the highlights.

[@answeris4217]

It's nice to see for sure. Especially the ways to fix the mistakes that does happen. I know that it happens to me a lot I almost always have one thing go wrong on projects.

[@chm1701]

Gabriel Matte. That’s the great part of his videos; it’s one thing to be able to do a joint, but it’s another to be able to rectify a problem, and to new woodworkers, it’s the problem solving which is the key part.

[@whosaidthat5236]

He can make a dovetail box in 8 min so I bet he could chop this out in way less then 40 min lol

[@american23t]

@@whosaidthat5236 Exactly...Showing how to do, step by step & explaining everything takes a lot of time. (re-edit because spell check misspelled)

[@geraldposey1496]

@@answeris4217 I wouldn't call that a mistake. It's just not yet finished. At the end he was done.

[@ktulu193]

Dear Paul, I just want to thank you for years of top quality educational videos. I'm happy to see you looking good and relaxed as always. It seems you're just happy to share your knowledge and tips and tricks without ever coming across as condescending. Your enthusiasm at the end of a video is just contagious and makes me want to pick up my tools and work. I often find myself going over some of your older videos, especially the video on making a poor man's rebate plane is a perfect example of you and your craft. The ending, where you go "would you look at that, I didn't have very much to do" is just so nice to see. Thank you, Paul!

[@american23t]

I'm going to check that one out right now...Always up for a Paul Sellers video...Especially one so well recommended.

[@petekendrick1598]

Hi Paul, I'm Pete , 71 been in woodworking in one way or another all my life, starting out following my dad around in his shop and on his jobs, I got into furniture making through my job as a cabinet maker. I love seeing your methods and workflows. We never get too old to stop learning. You are a breath of fresh air. You have encouraged me to go non power tools in almost all my work. Not hand-ripping 12 foot trees at my age though ;-)

[@georgepitts6500]

I want to thank you Paul. Your videos are top notch. You have taught me so much about the finer detail of woodworking. Your accuracy and pristine attention to detail are exemplary, I would say even the best on KZbin. Thanks again and I hope to continue learning from you.

[@DeaconDesperado1]

I’ve studied this video again and again for hours. Cut four yesterday, cutting last four today. Thanks Paul!

[@qzwxecrv0192837465]

The first video I can recall where an error was made, then a detailed simple explanation of how to fix it. A huge fan sir

[@guillaumep.6534]

"How I did it? I don't know, but I did. Back in with the chisel. And now I am happy". This search of perfection is very satisfying wow!

[@scottm9605]

Using your router as a cutting gauge is a stroke of genious. Hats off to you sir.

[@jkgkjgkijk]

This man blows my mind. The talent and dedication is overwhelming. I have woodworking 1 and 2. I've made most of the pieces in it. Thank You for all you do Paul.

[@christopherharrison6724]

Paul ‘reaching for the sky’is a great manta for your life love these method of teaching.

[@oldsteamguy]

This is worth 10 videos where everything appears to go perfectly. Thanks Paul.

[@junemacdonald44]

Paul, you are an absolute gem. Truly, I've learned so much from your videos.

[@gdwright65]

Mr. Sellers, Thank you for even walking us through the minor finesse work that we would never have been able to see and how to fix it. You are an excellent teacher and I thank you very much for it.

[@jellyfinger]

Paul, If you were ever wondering if your tuition was being absorbed, I sat shocked at the lack of knife wall when making the jig. Love your work as always. Best wishes.

[@timsullivan2383]

I remember having to make this joint back in High School as one of the prerequisites before we could move on the the next level of woodworking class. Paul you make this look easy. I remember struggling with this with a dull back saw, worn down bench chisels that were almost to short to chop out the mortise. and limited instruction from our shop teacher. He had a large class and couldn't spend the time he wanted with individual instruction just the 10,000' fly over after showing us how to make it. LoL

[@extazerty1699]

What a brilliant demonstration on how to solve an accuracy issue. If you don't know how to do that you can ruin the whole visual of your work. This video shows that even when your name is Paul Sellers you can encounter accuracy problems. So thank you Paul for this honesty and for sharing once again your great experience.

[@mealua]

Thanks for the finessing part! Really useful to see how (and that) you are dealing with imperfections. Could be an entire series worth of teaching material.

[@mattevans-koch9353]

Thank you Paul for the excellent demonstration. It is hard to believe that 40 minutes can go by so fast. Very enjoyable lesson.

[@ikust007]

Paul Sellers has a such special way of teaching. Love it. Let’s hope we will be able to clone him! :)

[@GuidoMillonezz]

he is just a genius. is good to see when a man master his life

[@ikust007]

@@GuidoMillonezz agree

[@55ATA3]

Paul, your skill shows in every video you do. We are lucky to have skilled people like you to guide us. Thank you for another video that shows how taking your time and looking at the work can show were to clean up to gain the best finished joints.

[@boozoochavis7506]

Thank you for posting all the videos you have, I never fail to learn boatloads of information and techniques. I find myself enjoying these more all the time, and your accent is so calming and peaceful as you go about the hard work. No flashing lights, bells, whistles, smoke, mirrors or ... dancing girls, thankfully. Wa-hey!!

[@Certified_Art_Teacher]

I’ve been looking everywhere for a video on this!! I wanted to make my own stretcher bars for my paintings and lo and behold! Thank you Paul!! 🙌

[@ambrosescott6938]

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[@shawnbrozowski3911]

I want to say that you are such a pleasure to watch. Your calm demeanor and persistence in the face of your own mistakes are inspiring and refreshing. Thank you Mr. Sellars for your efforts in helping all of us to realize we can accomplish the same level of peace with even the simplest projects. I usually tend to think I am either way too slow or not good enough to do what I need to, but this video helped me a great deal to be kind towards my own abilities.

[@pinview8519]

Paul, thank you for showing how to make a proper mitre joint. Real pleasure to watch. Thanks again.

[@cindyharrison4191]

Thanks for going the extra mile and showing what can go wrong and how to fix it Xxx

[@tomware9448]

Paul is a very talented craftsman but a better teacher!

[@brucewelty7684]

Thanks for the instruction in detective work. We can learn the macro from many videos, but finding the half mm boondoggle is what many of us need to learn.

[@sukeywatson1281]

Mr. Paul Sellers, you are a wonderful teacher. Every video I watch, I learn something. Thank you for these for well done informative videos.

[@gkinlen]

Thank you Paul. We are all so fortunate to view your skill and experience. Knowing how to remedy situations is the sign of a true master.

[@seggremalac]

I apprechiate most the last part because the usual youtube woodworkers doesn't show their errors and it looks like they make everything perfect for the first try. It's not just demotivating but we can't learn how to fix these. (I love how perfectly square anyones' joints and boxes but it took more than a year to find the first video where I could see some technics to adjust them in case they are not perfect.) Besides that there are a lot of small wisdom candies all over the video, it worth all the 40 minutes! Thank you!

[@user-nn7uh7lm6f]

Special thank for translating inches to mm)) it is absolutely impossible to imagine all those “eights” and “three sixteenth” when to compare or calculate!;))

[@earlystrings1]

I've been a wood worker for 40 years and it never occurred to me to use a router plane as a cuttung gauge. Fantastic!

[@jovanmiletic]

Mr. Sellers you are phenomenal. I admire you patient and commitment to perfectionism. Thank you for your teaching.

[@dogastus]

What a joy to watch a true craftsman at work.

[@stevegaspa]

Paul i love watching you teach us less than perfect woodworkers. you are so calm and soft with manners. i put my headphones on and go into another world with you. so helpfull and instructive, keep them coming i could watch you all day. regards Steve

[@joeleonetti8976]

Thanks Paul. The diagnostic process to get the gap closed is very helpful.

[@ikust007]

Hard to express all my admiration and gratitude . Thank you Sir.

[@DrifterNomad]

So Totally Agree with John S .......... Love watching your vids and Learning so much. Thank You. Drifter

[@_J.F_]

As always you make these things look so easy and simple. To me it remains a bit of a tumble, and I stumble, but you motivate me to keep going with your excellent videos. Thank you!

[@Diozark]

First practice piece was lacking in craftsmanship, so I had to take a little more care, make some adjustments, slow down a bit, and made a good matching pair of miters, thank you Paul for posting!! I dont have a hand router, but ordered a replacement blade for $17.00 and will make a base for it. I used the block of wood with a screw in it, to scribe my gauge lines, work well. lay out was for a 3/8" chisel, removed waste with a 1/4" chisel left plenty to pare down to the right depth.

[@rocquemotta]

This is the same frame made for painting canvas, the diference is that for painting frames there are the wedges to tension the canvas. Today is rare to see that, I've made some for my wife (who paints oil over canvas). There are some small differences: the stock is tapered do that the canvas does not rest over the frame, only the corner of the wood, and there are 45o passages for the wedges. But in essence is the same assembly.

[@bigsabertoothbunny5986]

"I'm about a millimeter off" - W.O.W. The eye of a master, just phenomenal! I wish I had sought out a master like this to learn this trade when I was a 20 something. Alas, I am here now tryint to learn what I can. Amazing work.

[@american23t]

Same regards here... Made in China isn't good enough...

[@oldbloke135]

Marvellous - and not a snowball's chance in hell of me getting four of them correct to make a whole frame!

[@imout671]

I just replaced the glass in 5 broken windows. They were old wooden Windows with lead weights and the windows had these joints. I had to reglue and renail one. I'd guess it was 100 years old.

[@darrelneuenschwander3377]

Thank you Mr. Sellers. I tried this to produce a 1x3/4” deep stock, 3.25x5” frame. Among my mistakes were: not having the template the same depth as my project wood (shimmed below with business cards), inaccurate sawing, getting too aggressive with my sanding (sanding off one crisp corner). I also found it difficult to use my wide mouthed Stanley 71 to mark these small parts. The joints were lovely (well, better on the face and back than on the tenoned edges). Overall, I’m very pleased with the mortised tenon. Thank you for introducing me to it. Darrel from rural northern Nevada.

[@garymccoy2888]

I will probably never make this joint, but it is so fascinating watch him work.

[@animeclips7232]

A special thanks to you dear Sir.

[@SkyfalconTin]

He done this without using any power tool, now that is amazing

[@bhazen5510]

You are what the word craftsman is all about.

[@chm1701]

Brilliant. I do find your videos so very helpful and the fact that this is an in-depth video, is a great advantage to new woodworkers like myself. I find woodworking very therapeutic, but there are times when I hit a stumbling block and am unsure how to rectify it. This video helps immensely. Thanks so much.

[@argentorangeok6224]

Another great video from the fellow with insanely sharp chisels.

[@kieran.stafford]

Wonderful watching skilled craftsmen working.

[@claytonjbeckiii3429]

This joint is very similar to the one for my stretcher bars for my oil paintings. The difference being that there is an extra bit of engineering involve in order to slide a wedge in the corner to expand the joint for canvas tensioning. The commercially available one's are of such poor quality. You have inspired me to try to make my own with much better quality material and care in execution.

[@Diozark]

Nice.

[@ecaff9515]

Excellent videos an process. I have seen a lot and I must say thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge and expertise with us. Your video on your home town was very interesting. Thank you for the look back to where it all began.

[@sarinhighwind]

ahhhhh, thats how you do that by hand and make it clean. I'd have never thought to pair it down like that.

[@abidmalick6232]

Perfect job asusual, a pleasure to watch you

[@robertpatrene2540]

That was terrific I'm new at this but I'm going to try , I'm 76 & really enjoy your skill's 💈👏🥇

[@lengthmuldoon]

Anyone else more than happy with the joint before final adjustment?

[@KonstantinChikov]

Very very helpful, thanks Paul

[@jeffkelly2793]

You make this look so easy m8. Love it

[@eizzle78]

I made mitered half lap joints for a walnut frame for a mirror for my daughter, but I did those on the router table. I think this would have been a lot less time consuming and probably much more accurate!

[@J.A.Smith2397]

Love how you didn't edit out thir complains Paul and help us work through em

[@dadb0d_dave628]

A master at work. Wonderful

[@Ghaleeexpensive]

God bless you dear Sir

[@SeanBlader]

Glad this one was surfaced to me, I need to make some bifold doors and I was thinking about a basic mitre joint, but this would be much more durable. I don't have a hand router, so I'll have to machine router, also I was thinking the jig could work with a blade attached to it to get those lines cut that you used the hand router for.

[@ookami112]

Paul ur my idol ! Life time woodworker

[@bl9531]

Excellent video.. thx

[@rickhickman2730]

I'm looking forward to putting this to good use in the next month or two as I build my girlfriend a walnut-framed whiteboard for her Christmas! Shh don't tell her lol

[@liamramshaw2535]

did she like it?

[@georgebarnett9837]

Great video Paul. Thanks so much.

[@rossmorrow3013]

Dear Sirs, Absolutely stunning Thank you ross

[@glennmcqueen9475]

Thank you Paul. Always a pleasure to absorb. Ps I watch all the KZbin ads as well, assume you get revenue for them

[@rontocknell3592]

Thank you Paul. A very useful tip. Re: the discrepency: I don't think you were in error with the initial marking. I think the discrepency may have occurred when you had to make a new knife wall along the mitre to correct the slight curve. It was only very slight but, when the right angled side of the joint came together, you were left with a slight gap on the mitre side. Hence the need to balance it by paring back slightly on the right angled side. I could be wrong, of course. I often am. But that's what I reckon.

[@rontocknell3592]

PS: As for how the slight curve occurred: well, if God can move in mysterious ways (as He allegedly can), so can a tenon saw. Mine does all the time.

[@rontocknell3592]

PPS: That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

[@pippimaxim]

Ive never seen an non-electric router...very interesting tool

[@moc5541]

I was able to stop the "tape" on a clear view of his saw. It's his favorite "Groves".

[@noel-ec4iy]

fantastic viewing

[@edkuhar3050]

Love it!! Thanks

[@marcelobento1361]

excellent job I'm from Brazil, I'm connected to the channel.

[@akader25]

very informative

[@shanemturner]

Simply brilliant!!

[@KennethColeStatenIsland]

Outstanding. Thank you.

[@rosshollinger8097]

Thank you for all you do to make us better woodworkers. Very nice video (as usual). The only way this could be better is I were there with you so you could slap me in the back of the head when I'm about to bollocks up the project. Hey, an idea! You should give away a two-week apprenticeship at your facility (which, as a matter of course, I would win). :o)

[@anthonymorris42]

Love to see how a pro troubleshoots.

[@martyhill6609]

Thnx Paul

[@jeffkerr4249]

Thanks PAUL.

[@richardbrobeck2384]

nice video Paul

[@Timotheousturalyon]

I'd like to see him put a whole frame like this together. Seems like it might give some trouble getting the angles and such right on the last 2 corners after you make adjustments to get the others to fit together well.

[@owendaulton9316]

Least dislikes I've ever seen with this many views... Excellent video, I need to try this!

[@AndrewHecker85]

"Red Squirrels trust Wales"? I always notice the tea mug. I also find the mug essential to all of my home projects (not always tea, though).

[@RollinShultz]

I learned a lot.

[@uconnizzy]

Anyone else feel like Paul made the “mistakes” on purpose just to show us how to fix them?

[@JerromKJ]

mistakes come uninvited. No need to ask for them

[@jamiefors5062]

Fantastic

[@antoniogarciaalgarra5025]

Dear mr. Sellers, Thank you for this tutorial. I tried to make a picture frame with this tenoned miter but in my case with a rebate for. the photo, a mat and the protective of glass. I'm stuck because the rebate has left the tenon way too thin. I mean much thinner than the measured 1/3 of the thickness of the stock. I don't know if that makes sense. Thank you in advance Tony

[@MrCsyba]

Magic. Like.

[@abidmalick6232]

Masterclass

[@javierdelfierro4180]

Excellent video as usual . I have been trying to dissipher the process for the construction of a tenoned mitered corners as the ones used for good artist canvas stretchers. The trick here is that each inside corner must have keys ro allow additional stretching of the canvas in case it becomes loose with time. As an artist and beginner woodworker these frames shoud be my first projects. Can you help or direct me to this construction? Thanks for your help.

[@axnbjsbdudbydvydubu9355]

hello paul, I was wondering how can you drill a straight hole with an non-power tool hand drill could you please show the technique.

[@debashissen5813]

I am not sure why one had to use the router to draw the guide lines. Couldn't have it been done just as well using a Marking Gauge?

[@user-ed6he5uy9v]

интересный способ, мне нравится.