Advanced methods for Fine Woodworking

The methods of joinery below are some of the most difficult species of precious wood, and are not suitable for beginners. These advanced joinery methods include:

Tenon joints

Widely used by experienced carpenters, furniture parts for membership. Also used in professional work. The mortise is a hole in the square holes in wood - the hole is completed (in square or rectangular) with the use of chisels. The pin part of the town is the square"Shelf" formed by the use of chisels. An example of this method of carpentry, a small table with teeth set in the table, one (or both) ends of the legs and cross members had trained in cones, in order to push the legs and braces made in the square hole.

Dovetail joinery

Used by advanced carpenter. Dovetail joints are used for the angles of production in expensive items like decorative boxes and chests, drawers and furniture in order to use only a few. EvenSwallowtails and "half dovetail log can be found in some residential building. Dovetail joints are some of the most beautiful types of joints known to the art of fine woodworking, but they are also one of the strongest.

Grain Woodworking

Requests that the use of wood "cap", used as "male and female" type of joinery. The pins or "anchors" are usually a few inches long - a hole into the end boards practiced together, the plugs are inserted into the hole to lie closelyand usually glued. A hole is then marked and drilled into another piece of wood, glue, and the two pieces of wood fit together. Furniture constructed with dowel joinery has good strength and integrity first, but the end grain sections tend to loosen over time.

"Biscuit" joinery

carpentry jobs as anchors, but uses "cookies" instead of dowels. These biscuits are very small, shaped pieces of wood oval, and the method requires the use of a special Power tool, called "biscuit joiner". This is a relatively new technology and cabinet making is always a favorite among woodworkers order to make a lot of carpentry. Biscuit joinery has the advantage of a fast and relatively inexpensive frames. It 's fast construction of most of the "traditional" joints such as those listed above. The only major expense is the initial investment to buy the biscuit joiner tool - the rest of the system is only acquiring "Cookies ", usually sold in boxes of 500 pieces or so and yellow wood glue. -> The glue and biscuits at a cost less than $ 20, the biscuit joiner runs in $ 200 to $ 250 range.