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The Joint Book: The Complete Guide to Wood Joinery
Featuring illustrated instructions for over 70 joints, this spiral-bound book is the perfect companion for any woodworker interested in improving their joint-making skills.

The Joint Book provides easy-to-follow directions for creating edge and scarf joints, lapped and housed joints, mortise-and-tenon joints, miters and bevels, dovetails, and dowels and biscuits, plus detailed descriptions of fasteners, hardware, and knockdown joints.

This hardcover book with internal spiral binding is 6.5” × 8”, the perfect size for carpenters and woodworkers to keep near their workbench or toolbox for quick access. The design of this book allows it to lay open flat for easy and frequent reference. The interior photographs, illustrations, and diagrams make the learning process simple and fun for beginners, while advanced readers will gain insight from the book’s useful tips.

Within, 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.

The Joint Book is the ultimate workshop reference, providing woodworkers with the knowledge to choose the right joint for the job.

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The Joint Book: The Complete Guide to Wood Joinery
Featuring illustrated instructions for over 70 joints, this spiral-bound book is the perfect companion for any woodworker interested in improving their joint-making skills.

The Joint Book provides easy-to-follow directions for creating edge and scarf joints, lapped and housed joints, mortise-and-tenon joints, miters and bevels, dovetails, and dowels and biscuits, plus detailed descriptions of fasteners, hardware, and knockdown joints.

This hardcover book with internal spiral binding is 6.5” × 8”, the perfect size for carpenters and woodworkers to keep near their workbench or toolbox for quick access. The design of this book allows it to lay open flat for easy and frequent reference. The interior photographs, illustrations, and diagrams make the learning process simple and fun for beginners, while advanced readers will gain insight from the book’s useful tips.

Within, 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.

The Joint Book is the ultimate workshop reference, providing woodworkers with the knowledge to choose the right joint for the job.

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The Joint Book: The Complete Guide to Wood Joinery

The Joint Book: The Complete Guide to Wood Joinery

by Terrie Noll
The Joint Book: The Complete Guide to Wood Joinery

The Joint Book: The Complete Guide to Wood Joinery

by Terrie Noll

Overview

Featuring illustrated instructions for over 70 joints, this spiral-bound book is the perfect companion for any woodworker interested in improving their joint-making skills.

The Joint Book provides easy-to-follow directions for creating edge and scarf joints, lapped and housed joints, mortise-and-tenon joints, miters and bevels, dovetails, and dowels and biscuits, plus detailed descriptions of fasteners, hardware, and knockdown joints.

This hardcover book with internal spiral binding is 6.5” × 8”, the perfect size for carpenters and woodworkers to keep near their workbench or toolbox for quick access. The design of this book allows it to lay open flat for easy and frequent reference. The interior photographs, illustrations, and diagrams make the learning process simple and fun for beginners, while advanced readers will gain insight from the book’s useful tips.

Within, 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.

The Joint Book is the ultimate workshop reference, providing woodworkers with the knowledge to choose the right joint for the job.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780785822271
Publisher: Chartwell Books
Publication date: 03/21/2009
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 184,820
Product dimensions: 7.90(w) x 6.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Terrie Noll is the former editor of the American magazine Woodwork. She has written numerous articles drawing on 20 years’ experience as a furniture designer and maker, and as a purchasing agent for specialty woodworking shops. Noll is the author of The Encyclopedia of Joint Making, The Joint Book: The Complete Guide to Wood Joinery, and Woodworker’s Joint Book.

Table of Contents


Aids to Accuracy and Order
Measuring and Marking     4
Squares and Angles     6
Exact Clamping and Assembly     8
Designing Joints
The Basic Orientations of Wood Parts     10
The Elements of Joinery     13
Wood Material and Joint Design     14
Choosing a Joint     18
Glues and Gluing     20
Edge and Scarf Joints
About Edge Joints     24
Plain Butt Glue Joint     26
Splined Joint     29
Tongue and Groove     31
About Scarf Joints     33
End-to-End Scarf     34
Edge-to-Edge Scarf     36
Squint-Butted Scarf     38
Lapped and Housed Joints
About Lap Joints     40
Shop-made Aids to Waking Lap Joints     43
End Lap     45
Center Lap     48
Angled T-Lap     51
Jigged Edge Lap     53
Box Joint on the Table Saw     55
About Housed Joints     58
Full Housing by Hand     60
Full Housing on the Table saw     62
Routed Housed Rabbet     64
Stop-Routed Housed Rabbet     66
Mortise-and-Tenon
About theMortise-and-Tenon     68
Choosing and Using Mortise and Tenon     72
Basic Mortise-and-Tenon     76
Open Slot Mortise on a Radial-Arm Saw     80
Through Mortise by Hand     82
Angled Mortise and Tenon     84
Through Wedged Tenon     87
Draw-Bored Tenon     89
Angled Tenon and Shoulder     91
Slip, or Loose, Tenon     93
Haunched Tenon     96
Sloped Haunched Tenon     98
Mortise-and-Tenon with Panel Groove     100
Mortise-and-Tenon for a Rabbeted Frame     102
Mortise-and-Tenon for a Mouided Frame     104
Miters and Bevels
About Miters and Beveis     106
Frame Miter by Hand     112
Feathered Miter on a Radial-Arm Saw     114
Lap Miter     116
Housed Rabbet Miter     118
Locked Miter     120
Waterfall Joint     122
Rabbet Miter     124
Compound Miter by Machine     126
Compound Miter by Hand     128
Dovetails
Choosing and Using Dovetails     130
Through Dovetail     134
Half-Blind Dovetail     138
Blind Mitered Dovetail      140
Stopped Tapered Dovetail by Hand     142
Sliding Dovetail Drawer Joint     144
Dovetail Keys     146
Butterfly Keys     148
Dovetail Splines     150
Dowels and Biscuits
About Dowels     152
Using Dowels     155
Reinforced Width Miter     158
Moulded-Edge Carcass Joint     160
Doweled Framing Joint     162
About Biscuit Joinery     164
Flush Framing Joint     166
Biscuited T Orientation     168
Offset L Joint     170
Fasteners, Hardware, and Knockdown Joints
Using Wood Screws     172
Assembly Fasleners, and Reinforcements     174
Keyed Tenon     178
Half-Dovetail Tenon     180
Joint Selector     182
Glossary     186
Index and Table     190
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