Manual of Purpose-Made Woodworking Joinery

32 Joinery joints (h) Now turn the work over and repeat the pro- cedure again. But this time, let the chisel go partly through t ...

Dovetail joints 33 acting as stretchers, can be 25 × 100mm sawn or prepared and the braces can be 25 × 75mm prepared. The legs c ...

34 Joinery joints The technique can be applied to setting out either through- dovetails or lapped- dovetails. Dovetailing termin ...

Dovetail joints 35 Dovetail Slope Figure 3.26: The dovetail angle for softwood is usually set to a ratio of 1 in 6. This can be ...

36 Joinery joints out (progressively pivoted with alternate divider- points remaining lightly pressed in the timber) by trial- a ...

Dovetail joints 37 personalized by individual, experienced woodworkers, resulting in interesting variations. My own slant on dov ...

38 Joinery joints fibres) and in retaining squareness. Alternatively, if cut with a fine saw, the ends can be sanded – or, as il ...

Dovetail joints 39 But, even with good sawing skills, this can lessen the quality of the joint. The chisel- paring of these oute ...

40 Joinery joints bulk of the waste with a coping saw. Then cut back to the deeply incised shoulder line with a wide bevel- edge ...

Dovetail joints 41 is held vertically in the vice. The first angle (to the ver- tical plane) is the marked tail- slope, the seco ...

42 Joinery joints through dovetails; and the initial setting out of the tails would have to take into account the position of th ...

Dovetail joints 43 Bridle joints Figures 3.40(a)(b): These joints in their original, three- layered form as illustrated, are tra ...

44 Joinery joints MISCELLANEOUS FRAME JOINTS Housing joints Figures 3.42(a)(b)(c)(d): The four types of housing joint shown here ...

Edge joints 45 flat surface. Providing the rule is practised to always keep one’s hands (and body- parts) behind cutting- edges, ...

46 Joinery joints how the timber has been cut (converted) from the log, wide boards may also take on a shape known in the trade ...

Edge joints 47 about 75mm) a few times until a resistance to move- ment is felt. At this stage, push slowly and stop when the tw ...

48 Joinery joints And for those who want to use dowelled edges for this reason – and have a dowelling jig and/or access to a pil ...

Edge joints 49 When manufactured, the elliptical- shaped biscuits are pressed and cut to shape from feather- grained beech and c ...

50 Joinery joints up a cutting gauge to the tongue’s required width and then by scoring deeply on the face side and the back sid ...

End joints 51 the shape of the F would have to be modified to cut out the slopes (which would destroy the design feature that fa ...