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Wedged round tenon

joints.wedged_round_tenon

A round leg through a stool's seat, held by a wedge in a kerf across the grain of the seat.

The wedge is two thirds of the seat long, at its head as wide as the kerf and the spread both ways, and 24 mm thick, so that its corners stay within the 25 mm tenon.

Wedged round tenon, assembled

Wedged round tenon, exploded

Parameters

Parameter Default
leg_length 400
diameter 25
kerf 2
flare 2

Change them in a design file (see Change an example):

from woodwright.examples import joints

design = joints.wedged_round_tenon(leg_length=500)

Drawings

The plans in one PDF: plans.pdf.

Assembly

assembly

Parts

parts

Leg

leg

Seat

seat

Wedge

wedge

Cut list

seat   300 x 300 x 30 mm  oak
       - through hole ø25, in bottom_face, centered
leg    ø40 x 430 mm  oak
       - round tenon ø25, 30 long, a saw kerf 2 mm, 20 deep, for a wedge, on right_end
wedge  20 x 6 x 24 mm  oak
       - taper 2 mm on front_edge towards right_end
       - taper 2 mm on back_edge towards right_end

Code

From woodwright/examples/joints.py, which imports the names it uses (see From an example to your own design):

def wedged_round_tenon(
    leg_length: float = 400, diameter: float = 25, kerf: float = 2, flare: float = 2
) -> Assembly:
    """A round leg through a stool's seat, held by a wedge in a kerf across
    the grain of the seat.

    The wedge is two thirds of the seat long, at its head as wide as the
    kerf and the spread both ways, and 24 mm thick, so that its corners
    stay within the 25 mm tenon.
    """
    asm = Assembly("wedged_round_tenon")
    seat = asm.add(Board("seat", THICK_OAK, length=300, width=300))
    leg = asm.add(Rod("leg", ROUND_LEG_OAK, length=leg_length))
    wedge_stock = Stock.board(thickness=24, species="oak")
    wedge = asm.add(Board("wedge", wedge_stock, length=20, width=kerf + 2 * flare))
    asm.join(
        WedgedRoundMortiseTenon(
            tenon=leg.right_end, mortise=seat.bottom_face, diameter=diameter, wedge=wedge, kerf=kerf
        )
    )
    return asm

Exported with woodwright 0.9.0 on 2026-10-25.