In this video Rob Brown shows how he cut the notices on the legs and shelves for the contemporary bookshelf featured in the Spring 2024 issue of our magazine.
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Wood Joinery
Wood Joinery, from Canadian Woodworking, offers practical guidance to help you understand and apply a wide range of joinery techniques.
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Bird’s mouth lap joint: the simple approach isn’t always the best
There are times when a simple, strong joint is the right choice. There are also times when a bit of flair can go a long way. And, heck, a bird’s mouth joint is also a lot of fun to make.
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The main advantage of using a mitre joint is that it looks clean and simple. The downside is assembling it evenly so it doesn’t look like a dog’s breakfast. The lock mitre joint ensures the joint not only looks great when assembled, but that assembly is a snap.
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Using Festool connectors to make a pair of sawhorses
In this video Steve Der-Garabedian shows you how he used Festool Domino Connectors to join the stiles and legs on his new sawhorses.
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Dowel joinery: simple, strong and accurate
Using dowels for joinery can be a very strong and accurate method. It’s also generally a very simple technique to master. I think woodworkers tend to avoid dowels for a number of reasons, even though they are perfectly capable of making you a better woodworker, and your furniture stronger as well.
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With all their angles, chair joints often pose a challenge. This East Coast furniture maker has adopted a unique joint to create a beautiful chair.
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These pillowed and wedged-through tenons make strong and eye catching joints.
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The Mortise and Tenon has been a cornerstone of furniture joinery for generations. Learn how to lay this traditional joint out properly and cut it with nothing but hand tools.
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Dowel joints are fast, easy and flexible to make, but how strong are they? We put this popular joint through some tests to figure out if they are as good as they seem.
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This shop-made mitre box will make cutting a mitre a little more enjoyable ... seriously.
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Learn how to make a bridle joint
Learn to make this simple but strong joint that has many applications in your woodworking.
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Of the many styles of dovetail joints, none are as useful or strong as the sliding dovetail.
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Cutting dovetails with hand tools can be a relaxing and extremely rewarding experience. The fine pins and custom layouts of hand cut dovetails also elevate your work to a higher level.
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Rabbets, dados and grooves are basic forms of joinery found in most woodworking projects. Learning to do them correctly will give your woodworking skills a solid foundation.
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Mortise and Tenon (with the router)
Mortise and Tenon joinery is both attractive and structurally solid. Because of that it is one of the most widely used joinery in woodworking, with uses ranging from traditional frame and panel doors to furniture.
