Popular Woodworking's Book of Joinery

542 Pages·2012·22.19 MB·English

by  Editors of Popular Woodworking

JOINERY TIPS & TECHNIQUES
HOW TO CUT PERFECT WOOD JOINTS EVERY
TIME
FROM THE EDITORS OF POPULAR WOODWORKING
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Table of Contents
Title Page
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Introduction
CHAPTER 1
Basic Joinery
CHAPTER 2
Advanced Joinery
CHAPTER 3
Router Joinery
CHAPTER 4
Case Joinery
CHAPTER 5
10 Tips for Tight Joints
CHAPTER 6
4 Joints for Box Making
CHAPTER 7
Adding Accuracy
CHAPTER 8
Mastering Through Mortise
CHAPTER 9
Mortise & Tenon Basics
CHAPTER 10
Router-made Mortise & Tenon
CHAPTER 11
Template Mortising
CHAPTER 12
Frame Miter Joints
CHAPTER 13
Compound Miters for Dummies
CHAPTER 14
The Case for Case Miters
CHAPTER 15
Final Word on Dovetails
CHAPTER 16
Half-blind Dovetails by Jig
CHAPTER 17
Impossitails
CHAPTER 18
Power-assisted Dovetails
CHAPTER 19
Shouldered Sliding Dovetails
CHAPTER 20
Sliding Dovetails
CHAPTER 21
Variable Spaced Dovetails
CHAPTER 22
Micro-adjustable Finger Joint Jig
CHAPTER 23
Super Simple Dado and Rabbet Jig
CHAPTER 24
The Joint Maker
CHAPTER 25
Table Saw Tenon Jig
CHAPTER 26
Dovetail Jig
CHAPTER 27
Shop-made Mortise Jig
CHAPTER 28
Mortising Jig for A Router
CHAPTER 29
Biscuit Joinery Basics
CHAPTER 30
Box Joints
CHAPTER 31
Cope & Stick
CHAPTER 32
Dado Joints
CHAPTER 33
Living on the Edge
CHAPTER 34
Face Frame Face-Off
CHAPTER 35
Ultrafast Frame & Panel
CHAPTER 36
Make Accurate Half-lap Joints
CHAPTER 37
Mitered Half-lap
CHAPTER 38
Lock Joints
CHAPTER 39
Loose-tenon Joints
CHAPTER 40
Four Good Ways to Cut Rabbets
CHAPTER 41
Right Time for Splines
CHAPTER 42
Tongue and Groove
Introduction
Joinery — It’s just like it sounds… how things are joined together. When
it’s applied to furniture, joinery relates to how the pieces go together.
But not just how they fit together, because joinery can also refer to how
they stay together. Certain woodworking joints offer different levels of
strenth to the joint, and depending on what you’re building (drawers,
perhaps) strength can be an important consideration in your choice of
joinery.
This book is filled with a variety of woodworking joints, many
overlapping and expanding on one another. The most fundamental joints
are covered, as well as some unusual and esoteric joints. The information
is collected from multiple authors, and you’ll find that not every
woodworker makes a joint exactly the same way. One of the classic
disucssions is about the dovetail joint, and whether to cut the pins, or
tails first. The discussion can be quite lively, and we’ve simply allowed
the authors to make their point and let you decide what plan fits your
project best.
Along with the “how-to” information on joinery, we’ve included a
number of jigs that will make your joinery work easier and more
accurate. Not everyone wants or needs a jig, but again we’re sharing the
information and letting you make the final decision.
We hope you find the information informative and educational, and
that you enjoy a little bit of entertainment along the way.
— DAVID THIEL, EDITOR