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Common Woodworking Joints Notes

The document discusses various common woodworking joints for beginning and advanced projects. It describes different types of butt, dowel, biscuit, mortise and tenon, rabbet, dado, groove, miter, tongue and groove, spline, blind dado, dovetail, pocket screw and lap joints; where each is used, their defining characteristics, strengths, and purposes.

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Common Woodworking Joints Notes

The document discusses various common woodworking joints for beginning and advanced projects. It describes different types of butt, dowel, biscuit, mortise and tenon, rabbet, dado, groove, miter, tongue and groove, spline, blind dado, dovetail, pocket screw and lap joints; where each is used, their defining characteristics, strengths, and purposes.

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Common Woodworking

Joints

Beginning Woodworking
Joints
Butt Joints
Edge Butt Joint
-Used to make boards wider
-Strong
End Butt Joint
-Not very strong,
-Must be reinforced
Dowel Joint
-Very Strong
-Used to make butt joints
stronger


Biscuit Joint
-Used to strengthen end butt joints
or edge joints.
-Not as strong as dowel joints.
- A type of a spline joint.

Mortise & Tenon Joint
-Very Strong
-Used on leg and
rail construction
Rabbet Joint
-Characteristic: Always on the end or edge of a board.
Goes with or across the grain.
-Used to insert a back panel into the back of a cabinet.
-Cut deep.
-Cut as wide as the board going into it.
Dado Joint
- Characteristic: Across the Grain and in the middle of
a board.
-Cut deep, As wide as the board going into it.
-Used to hold a fixed shelf
Groove (Plough) Joint
- Characteristic: Goes with the Grain.
-In the middle of a Board.
-Cut deep and as wide as the board
going it.
-Used for drawer bottoms.
Miter Joint
Flat Miter
Plain Miter
-Main purpose is to cover end grain.
-Can be reinforced.
-Used on the corners of picture frames.
Advanced Furniture
Woodworking Joints
Tongue & Groove
-Used on hardwood Flooring
Spline Joint
-Separate piece of Wood glued inside.
-Used to strengthen a miter or edge
joint.
Blind (Stopped) Dado
-Does not go clear through.
-Stops about -1 short.
-Used so you dont see the joint.
Dovetail
-Used in the best Drawer Construction.
Pocket Screw Joint
-Used in place of a dowel Joint or Mortise
and Tennon
-Used on a face frame.
Lap Joint

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