Dezeen Showroom: Italian furniture company Alf DaFrè has released a wooden sideboard characterised by dappled surfaces that appear to have been carved into by a chisel. The Gubia cabinet is named ...

The “mortise” is the recess where the tenon goes. It can be cut by hand with a mallet and mortising chisel, or mechanically with a mortising machine and a hollow chisel bit. If you don’t have those ...