On 12/23/2015 2:43 PM, John McCoy wrote:
John McCoy wrote in
:

Well, as I recall the article (and as I posted above), the
two joints broke in different ways. The M&T, all varieties
including floating, sheared the tenon. The domino (and
dowelmax, etc) all broke the mortised board.

Following up to myself, I found the article on line:

http://paul-flores.com/downloads/Joinery_Failure.pdf

replete with pictures of the failed joints.

I was mistaken in thinking they didn't speculate on the
different failures - it seems they attribute it to the
domino, etc, being shorter than a typical tenon. Which
I guess would depend on exactly what you were trying to
join, but in their test pieces was the case.

John



The fact that the Butt joint scored higher than two other methods makes
the whole article suspect. I would not be surprised at all if the chart
was sorted but not all of the columns were included in the sort. LOL