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In order to bring the leg and bridge of a wooden bench together, a wooden joint must be made that permanently connects the woods. You can use tools made of other materials (such as metal, e.g. nails), or you can create a connection from the wood itself, such as the pin connection, so that the bridge engages the leg. The following describes how to achieve such a connection. For this, the places where something is to be cut out with the chisel are marked first. This can also be done with a so-called marking needle. The mortises are chiselled into the two inner sides of a leg. These should be about two thirds deep. For this purpose, the work piece is clamped on the workbench. A firmer chisel is used that fills the width of the mortise. The chisel is set sharply against the crack, so that the entire length of the blade lies vertically against the crack and the bevelled side of the blade points towards the mortise. A chisel or a joiner's mallet is used to carve the chip off the wood. At the beginning, the first chip is only removed very flat by placing the tip of the chisel flat and beating it with the stick. Only then can you chisel to the full depth, but you have to be very careful not to overpress the edge so that it becomes a cleanly worked tenon hole. It should be noted that the edges have been chiselled straight down and that the hole does not taper, for example. The resulting vertical should also be straight and without unevenness so that the slot fits exactly into the cleanly worked tenon hole later on. The second operation to complete such a tenon connection is to make the slot. To do this, the dimensions are first torn so that the slot fits into the corresponding mortise. The slot is created when the squared timber is clamped in the planer, in which the right and left part of the wood is sawn off and thus the slot remains in the middle. The connection should fit into each other immediately without any rework.