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[stormdog]

I'm reading Carl Condit's "American Building: Materials and Techniques from the Beginning of the Colonial Settlements to the Present" and looking up some of what he writes about for further clarification and details. The foxtail wedged tenon joint at this link and the ingenuity, precision, and skill that goes into making it, are one of the most beautiful things I've come upon in woodworking. Wow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortise_and_tenon

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[acelightning]

Townsends is a great channel - they do a lot of 18th-century cooking, as well as construction (they recently built a dugout canoe, the hard way), things relating to clothing, tools, weapons, and other details of everyday life in RevWar era America. And the host, Jon Townsend, explains things very clearly. Sometimes he has his young daughter, Ivy, working with him on a project. They also do live streams with Q and A. (Townsends also has a store that sells all sorts of reasonably accurate gear - clothes, tools, cookware, books, and stuff, for serious re-enactors.)