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Woodworking joints for chairs. Joinery makes or breaks a project. Generally the more difficult the joint the stronger it is. As a result two or more pieces fit together closely you can use it to make wide tabletops out of solid wood. That s why woodworkers decide on the joints they ll use early on in the planning stages.
One of the more popular woodworking joints is the edge to edge joint called tongue and groove. A jig and a fence. In a recent post i talked about four simple woodworking joints. A simple joining of two pieces of wood either at a corner or edge to edge.
These tapered joints are clever. When you want a more attractive option try a mitered butt joint. In traditional windsor chair construction the legs and spindles are attached to the plank seat using tenons that are cone shaped along their lengths. To successfully create most types of wood joints you ll need to make precise cuts.
The most famous locked joint is the dovetail. Making these joints requires some cleverness. The other piece has a tongue cut on the mating edge. So the mortises have to be the same shape.
Here i am going to go into some more complicated joinery starting with locked joints where the wood itself makes up part of the strength of the joint. This requires correct usage of two basic woodworking tools. The butt joint is the most basic woodworking joint where two pieces of wood are butted together most often at a right angle to one another but it isn t the prettiest of joints since the end grain of one of the two boards will be visible.