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Wood Joints
Wood Joints
It is a 2 pieces
of wood joined 1. Basic Butt Joint
There is no more basic wood joinery than the butt
together
joint. A butt joint is nothing more than when one
piece of wood butts into another (most often at a
right angle, orsquare to the other board) and is
fastened using mechanical fasteners. This type of
JOINERY- art of
joint is often used in wall framing on construction
sites.
making wood
joint
JOINER-a 2. Mitered Butt Joint
person who Butt Joint -The
simplest and weakest
make joints kind of wood joint
Wood joinery is one of the most basic concepts in
woodworking. If one didn't have the ability to joint Miter joint-45degree
two pieces of wood together in a solid fashion, all
woodworking pieces would be sculptures, carved out angle. It is the most
of a single piece of wood. However, with the many
varied types of wood joinery, a woodworker has a
beautiful but weak
number of different joints in his arsenal from which to kinds of joint
choose, based upon the project. If you master these
wood joinery concepts, you'll be well on your way to
becoming a very accomplished woodworker. Rabbit joint- made half
along the grain of the
Wood Joinery wood
Types
Dado joint-wood joint
made half across the
grain of the wood