Joinery
Here's everything you need to know to create precise, strong, long-lasting furniture joinery. We'll discuss miters, mortise and tenons, box joints, dovetails, frame-and-panel construction, biscuits, pocket-screws, half-laps, and more.
Kevin Boyle and John Olson design and build nearly every project you see in WOOD® magazine.
Rout this strong joint quickly and accurately with a plunge router and a simple jig you can build.
Pocket-hole joints provide the perfect combination of speed and strength for this job.
Learn to cut incredibly strong half-lap joints by hand or with a two-step process using a tablesaw a
Practice your handsaw skills as you learn to hand-cut a tenon.
Adding splines to mitered corners not only provides strength, but an extra element of design.
The devil is in the details, such as the plugs used is the Chaise Lounge project found in WOOD magaz
Learn how to dress up a standard mitered box by adding a splines for decoration.
Learn how to make a box joint, often called a finger joint.
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