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.
We dubbed this modified and pegged half-lap joint a "Swedish half-lap" in honor of Design Editor Joh
Learn how to make a lower cabinet face frame. This is just one element of a complete series on
I’d like to incorporate threaded wood bolts and nuts into an upcoming project. Is this a difficult process to set up and learn?
Every time I use a dado set to cut half-lap joints, I seem to waste a lot of time lining up each successive cut to the edge of the blade. Is there a faster system?
Recently, I had to cut 1⁄2
"-thick, 21⁄2
"-long tenons in 3⁄4
" oak for a project. Each time, the results were a disaster.
Is there a clamp or glue-up method to fasten compound miter joints for a frame? No regular frame clamp will work.
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