Wood Joints

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Wood Joints

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Wood Joints

• Increased strength with the increase of glued
  surface area
• When selecting joints, consider strength,
  appearance, and difficulty
• Pieces to joined should be cut and squared

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Butt and Edge Joints

• Used on boxes and frames that are reinforced with
  screws or nails
• Butt joint
• Plain edge
• Doweled edge
• Rabbeted edge or edge lap
• Tongue and groove
• Splined and edge

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Dados and Grooves

• Used for shelves, frames, bookcases, chests,
  cabinets
• Dado
• Blind dado
• Dado rabbet
• Groove

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Rabbet joints

• Used for the corners of simple boxes, cases,
  drawers
• Formed with the grain or cross grain

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Lap joints

• Cross-lap
• End-lap
• Middle-lap
• Half-lap

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Mortise-and-Tension joint

• One of the strongest wood joints
• Blind
• Open (slip joint)
• Haunched
• Barefaced

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Dowel Joints

• Very strong
• Easier to make than the mortis-and-tenon

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Miter Joints

• Used for picture frames and moldings for
  furnature
• Feather
• Mitered end-lap
• Dowels
• Glue block
• Spline
• Lock

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Dovetail and Box joints

• Lap dovetail
• Trough dovetail
• Box joints
• Half-blind dovetail
• Dovetail dado

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Plate Joinery

• Joint made with biscuits wafers or plates
• Plate sizes
• 0 16 x 47mm
• 10 20 x 52mm
• 20 24 x 58mm