How To Make Joinery Joints
Its also a convenient way if youre already using the joiner for the cabinet boxes.
How to make joinery joints. A plate joiner above is used to cut the slots. A butt joint is made up of one piece of stock butted against another and affixed with a glue of some kind. To make the joint glue and screw one side of the strap to a workpiece.
I then placed my cross-cut sled on the table saw and placed the material I want to make the finger joints on next to the blade to get the perfect height for the joint. Then trim the outside edges. To join face frames with biscuits you usually need to let the biscuit extend past the outside of the frame and trim it off.
After the glue dries glue the other half of the strap and clamp the assembly to a flat surface. You want the blade to be slightly higher than the material. The hallmark of skilled woodworking is the ability to create tight wood joints where the edges blend seamlessly making two joined pieces look like a single piece.
The joint is strengthened by wood screws or nails driven through one of the pieces of stock and into the end grain of the other. To make your butt joints as strong as possible use proper technique as described below. It is always better to cut the joints a little longer and sand away the excess than not cutting them long enough.
The biscuits are a great reinforcement for butt joints used to join cabinet carcases chests and boxes drawers and trays or end-to-edge joined frame members 2 inches and wider. With the board positioned vertically and centered in a jig make the cut to create the slot. Mastering how to cut tongue and groove with the router.
For a tight joint raise the other workpiece about 14 at 3 from the end being jointed. Tuck the unglued side of the paper into the roll roll it up and use the glued edge to tack down one end of the paper using just a little. The setup will take a bit more time than using a router bit as you have to micro-adjust the rip fence.
