Joining Wood

the long version

Describes different types of joints and joinery tools, demonstrates simple, reinforced, and interlocking joints, and suggests four projects The author provides techniques & practical applications for joinery. You will find: • Techniques required to make each joint • Clearly illustrated, step by step • Over 200 drawings & photos • Shop tested tips, ingenious jigs & fixtures, useful charts • Complete plans & instructions for popular projects • A cabinetmaker’s workbench – joins a mortise & tenon frame to a butcher block top to make a useful table • A cut-off jig for your table saw makes it easy to cut precise, close fitting joints • A country pewter rack is joined with simple dadoes & rabbets • A half moon bench is assembled with traditional dovetails & wedged mortises & tenons • A miniature chest of drawers combines stopped grooves, lock joints, reinforced miters, & haunched mortises & tenons