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Kinds of Joints

The document discusses different types of wood joints used in woodworking including lap joints, butt joints, dowel joints, box joints, dovetail joints, biscuit joints, dado joints, mortise and tenon joints, pocket joints, tongue and groove joints, rabbet joints, and miter joints. Details are provided about the structure and uses of each type of joint.

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Kinds of Joints

The document discusses different types of wood joints used in woodworking including lap joints, butt joints, dowel joints, box joints, dovetail joints, biscuit joints, dado joints, mortise and tenon joints, pocket joints, tongue and groove joints, rabbet joints, and miter joints. Details are provided about the structure and uses of each type of joint.

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1.

Lap Wood Joint

Lap Wood Joint


Lap wood joint is commonly used for cabinet frames, making tables,
temporary framing, and many more.

The lap joint as the name suggests is an overlap type of joint and is
available in different two types of lap joints namely full lap joints and
half lap joints, most of the time the thickness equals one board.

2. Butt Joint
Butt Joint
This butt joint as the name suggests is two pieces of wood that are
butted together and in a basic type of butt joint the square end of one
butt piece into the side or the end of the other piece.

This butt joint is simply a base joint that is used for creating many
other types of wood joints and it is when you take two full pieces of
lumber and put them up against each other on the ends, and creates
flat edges on all sides.

These butt joints are fastened by screws or nails for framing wooden
pieces in the wall like wall studs, and mostly the butt joints are seen in
the door and window trim.

where vertical trim pieces butt into a header or horizontal window sill
level, also this butt joint is secured with metal hardware and dowels
hardware.

3. Dowel Wood Joints


Dowel Wood Joint
This dowel wood joint is similar to the mortise and tenon wood joint in
that projection is fitted into a socket for strengthening purposes.

The difference is that the dowel is a completely separate cylindrical


object and both pieces of wood will need sockets.

The dowel wood joints are easy to install, only you need a drill
machine and dowel rod for joining and the screw hole into the board
and it uses dowels for holding the two pieces of wood together.

also, it is not as secure as compared to other types of wood joints, but


the dowel is thick enough then it can bear the heavy weight as any
other type of joint in the same wood, Generally, this dowel joint is
used for shelving, frames, and affordable furniture.

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4. Box Wood Joint


Box Joint
This boxwood joint is a simple alternative to the dovetail wood joint;
this joint is aesthetically beautiful but not strong and also not practical.

5. Dovetail Joint

Dovetail Joint
This dovetail joint is a very strong type of wood joint and it resists
pulling apart through the use of wedge-shape interlocking pieces,
mostly the dovetail wood joint is found where the ends of two pieces of
wood meet at a right angle and such as along the corners of drawer
sides.

The pro tip is if you plan to cut a lot of dovetails and invest in a
dovetail jig for your router and dovetail jig is adjustable.
The wedge-shaped assembly that requires only glue and no other
fasteners is often a sign of quality workmanship one or more wedge
shape sockets are cut into one piece of wood and two pieces of wood
are joined with clamped and glue cut on the other piece of wood.
Nowadays the dovetail is cut with the use of a router.

6. Biscuit Wood Joint

Biscuit Wood Joint


This biscuit joint is a wood joint that uses a small disc to jig two pieces
of wood together the disc goes into both pieces of wood and is
generally made of compressed particle board though it can be made of
anything.

Generally, the biscuit is made up of particleboard or something similar


kind of material, and if you do this when you added glue and it
expands as it dries and created even more secure holds.

Another method for joining boards along the edges and it cut the slots
and using beech wood wafers known as a biscuit for holding the
boards in place.

This biscuit wood joint is a very useful modern woodworking joint,


particularly to create table tops, relying on glue and the swelling of the
biscuit for holding the boards in place.

7. Dado Wood Joints


Dado Wood
This dado wood joint is used for three-sided channels cut across the
grain of one piece of wood which is just wide enough for the other
piece of wood to fit in, but mainly the dado joint is used for making
drawers, cabinets, shelves, etc.

Also, this dado joint is used for movable parts so that you can move
the drawers or shelves out and in at any time to adjust them, you can
simply increase the height of shelving and drawers according to your
requirement with the use of multiple grooves.

8. Mortise And Tenon Wood Joint

Mortise and Tenon Wood


This Mortise and tenon wood joint is an ancient technique used where
one piece of wood has a hole in it and the other is protruding for
creating an oblong notch that can go into the hole.
but easy-to-use joint and it gives the strongest type of hold you can
use glue for making it an even more secure joint but without applying
the glue you can adjust it any time, also it is mostly used for large-
scale projects, furniture, and making structure.

9. Pocket Wood Joint

Pocket Wood Joint


This pocket wood joint involves cutting a slot and pre-drilling a pilot
hole at an angle between two boards before connecting the two boards
before connecting a two with a screw.

pre-drilling is required to be very accurate so it is typically


accomplished by the use of a commercial jig also it works great for the
face frame of cabinets and other similar applications where a lot of
strength is not needed.

The pocket joint is mostly used in construction when you want to


eliminate any screw on nail visibility, you can use also use butt joints
instead of screwing the screw in on the end and you can screw them in
at an angle.

10. Tongue And Groove Wood Joints


Tongue and Groove Joint
These tongue and groove joints are mostly used in flooring like
laminate flooring, wood flooring and engineered wood flooring and
paneling, sliding work, it uses a groove that has a tongue carved out in
another piece of wood to fit it.

One of the hardest ways for securing the wood is side to side or end to
end, the thinness of the wood makes it very difficult to make it secure
so that the tongue and groove wood joint is designed.

11. Rabbet Wood Joint

Rabbet Wood
This rabbet wood joint is commonly used in cabinetry, the rabbet is
essentially a cut like a dado along the edge of a board, also assembled
at the back side of cabinets and other similar fasteners are attached to
give a high amount of strength.

12. Miter Wood Joint

Miter Wood Joint


This miter wood joint is made by using cutting two pieces at a 45-
degree angle and joined at a right angle, it is common for box
shape wooden structures, drawers, and picture wood frames, and it
is also used for pipes that need to be elbowed. Although it needs to
be glued to joining together.

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