The joint book : the complete guide to wood joinery. txt
Terrie Noll.
- 192 p. col. ill. 21 cm.
Includes Index
Chapter 1 Aids to Accuracy and Order -- Measuring and marking -- Squares and angles -- Exact clamping and assembly.-- Chapter 2 Designing Joints -- The basic orientations of wood parts -- The elements of joinery -- Wood material and joint design -- choosing a joint -- Glues and gluing.-- Chapter 3 Edge and Scarf Joints -- Plain butt glue joint -- Splined joint -- Tongue and groove.-- Chapter 4 Lapped and Housed Joints --Shop-made aids to making lap joints -- End lap -- Center lap -- Angled T-lap -- Jigged edge lap -- Box Joint on the table saw -- About housed joints -- Full housing by hand -- Full housing on the table saw -- Routed housed rabbet -- Stop-routed housed rabbet.-- Chapter 5 Mortise-and-Tenon --About the Mortise and Tenon -- Choosing and Using Mortise and Tenon -- Basic Mortise and Tenon -- Open Slot Mortise on a Radial Arm Saw -- Through Mortise by Hand -- Angled Mortise and Tenon -- Through Wedged Tenon -- Draw-Bored Tenon -- Angled Tenon and Shoulder -- Slip, or Loose, Tenon -- Haunched Tenon -- Sloped Haunched Tenon -- Mortise-and-Tenon with Panel Groove -- Mortise-and-Tenon for a Rabbeted Frame -- Mortise-and-Tenon for a Moulded Frame.-- Chapter 6 Miters and Bevels -- About Miters and Bevels -- Frame Miter by Hand -- Feathered Miter on a Radial-Arm Saw -- Lap Miter -- Housed Rabbet Miter -- Locked Miter -- Waterfall Joint -- Rabbet Miter -- Compound Miter by Machine -- Compound Miter by Hand.-- Chapter 7 Dovetails -- Choosing and Using Dovetails -- Through Dovetail -- Half-Blind Dovetail -- Blind Mitered Dovetail -- Stopped Tapered Dovetail by Hand -- Sliding Dovetail Drawer Joint -- Dovetail Keys -- Butterfly Keys -- Dovetail Splines.-- Chapter 8 Dowels and Biscuits --About Dowels -- Using Dowels -- Reinforced Width Miter -- Moulded-Edge Carcass Joint -- Doweled Framing Joint About Biscuit Joinery -- Flush Framing Joint -- Biscuited T Orientation -- Offset L Joint.-- Chapter 9 Fasteners, Hardware, and Knockdown Joints -- Using Wood Screws -- Assembly Fasteners, and Reinforcements -- Keyed Tenon -- Half-Dovetail Tenon -- Joint Selector -- Glossary -- Index and Table
Learn how to pick the right joint for your woodworking job, ensuring accuracy in your work. Inside this book, you'll find step-by-step illustrated instructions for making all the basic joints in every joint family -- mortise and tenon, dovetails, miters, and more -- and their variations; both hand tool methods and power tool techniques, plus a variety of easy-to-build jigs; how the nature of wood and its properties affect joinery, glue, and furniture design.