This week (yes, I’ve waited ‘til the last day again) Cee setup a Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge that works very well for me. Joints and connecting points are an essential component of woodworking. Here’s what Cee said about the challenge:
“This week our topic is celebrating Joints or Connecting Points. Just make sure your joint, connecting point, corner, etc. are clearly visible in your photo. Have fun.”
Most of the photos in the gallery are from my workshop, and I was having fun at the time they were taken. There are a few more images than usual, but I covered box joints, mortise and tenon joints, tongue & groove joints and a couple others. I made all but the scarf joint. Many of the pictures were used a long time ago in a post describing how I made a wooden tote. If you want to read more woodworking, click here.
If you click on the little (i) in the circle, you can read the full captions (some of which are long).
Happy Monday!
In order to test a box-joint jig, I made a couple of small boxes. Fortunately, my wife and daughter like them.
AdvanTech subflooring has a tongue and groove joint along the long edge. Since the short edge is above the plate between the two rooms, I decided to add “biscuits” to help keep the panels aligned.
Each joint is dry-fit, adjusted if necessary and numbered. I use tape, because the marks I’ve made on the wood will be sanded away prior to assembly.
More than a decorative detail, the drawer dividers are cut with dovetail ends for a mechanical joint.
Once assembled, the threaded joints had to be welded so they don’t rotate under stress.
This is a Scarf Joint. When I contemplated doing the April A-to-Z challenge, I was going to do woodworking as a theme – this would have been “S”
Anatomy of a pocket hole joint. The screw whose head you see is where we start. The screw whose threads you see is where it will finish. When all the surface area shown is covered in glue, this joint is amazingly strong.
Tongue and groove joint. The joint provides mechanical strength and lots of glue surface.
The upper interior section (3 rails, 3 stiles and five panels) have had time to set up. the bottom panel and rail is dry fit in place and I’m ready to glue the four mortise and tenon joints. 5-8 minutes.
Every joint is dry-fit before any glues is added. Once these go together with glue on them, they aren’t coming apart, so they have to fit.
In order to test a box-joint jig, I made a couple of small boxes. Fortunately, my wife and daughter like them.
This illustrates how a mortise and tenon joint is mechanically strong and provides a lot of glue surface.
When building this little box, I also took the opportunity to practice making a sliding lid.
This little box was a way to learn how to use a new inlay cutting jig and to make a mitered box to wrap the inlay around the corners.
The back side of my box joint jig. Lots of connections here.
Green and Green style cabinet with shiplap cedar strips for the back.
Testing the to see if my jig cuts nice Green and Green joints.
This overlay joint is a ‘shiplap’ from the way the joined boards on ships.
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