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This comprehensive and practical book demystifies the all-important subject of choosing, designing and cutting woodworking joints. It takes you through the process, from choosing the appropriate joint for the purpose to assembling finished pieces. You will learn about timber selections, tools and adhesives, and the working methods and habits that are needed to achieve consistently good results.

The Joint Book

The Complete Guide to Wood Joinery

Author: Terrie Noll

Publisher: Chartwell Books

Category: Crafts & Hobbies

The Joint Book features illustrated instructions for over 70 joints—providing easy-to-follow step-by-step directions for creating edge and scarf joints, lapped and housed joints, mortise and tenon joints, miters and bevels, dovetails, dowels and biscuits, and detailed descriptions of fasteners, hardware, and knockdown joints. This book is the perfect companion for any woodworker interested in improving their joint-making skills. 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.

The Encyclopedia of Joint Making

The complete, full-color guide to wood joinery, with step-by-step instructions on how to select, cut, and assemble the right joint of the job

Author: Terrie Noll

Publisher: Chartwell Books

Category: Crafts & Hobbies

The Encyclopedia of Joint Making has step-by-step illustrated instructions for making all of the basic joints in every joint family--mortise and tenon, dovetails, mitres, and more--plus popular joint variations. The Encyclopedia of Join Making has comprehensive coverage of the nature of wood material and how it affects joinery, glue, and furniture design for informed engineering of joints to last. Learn to use fasteners, bindings, adhesives and only wood elements when creating your wood joints. Have you started a woodworking project only to find yourself stuck in at a crossroads when it comes to making a wooden joint? Use this book to learn all the tricks necessary to choose and use layout tools for accurate works, plus practical marking methods for quick identification of project parts. Wooden joint making has never been so easy. Master the dovetail joint, mitre joint and so many more to ensure your furniture or wooden engineering project is completed to perfection. The Encyclopedia of Joint Making also includes both hand tool methods and power tool techniques, a variety of jigs and up-to-date coverage of contemporary alternatives. So, grab up your tools and get started on that woodworking project you always wanted to finish but never got around to.

The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery

Author: Gary Rogowski

Publisher: Taunton Press

Category: Crafts & Hobbies

Rogowski describes how to make every practical woodworking joint in a series of full-colour step-by-step photographic tutorials.

Joints

A Woodworker's Guide

Author: Ralph Laughton

Publisher: GMC Publications

Category: Carpentry

Strong, appropriate and well-fitting joints are one of the hallmarks of skilled woodworking. Aimed at both those new to the craft as well as those with more experience, this book demystifies one of the most important and challenging aspects of woodworking - choosing, cutting and assembling joints. It is essential to approach making joints methodically and this book provides all the necessary information you need to ensure good results each time. Ralph Laughton guides the reader through the whole process, from selecting the appropriate joint to use to assembling the finished piece. Also clearly explained are timber selection, the basic tools required and which adhesives to use. Some of the joints described in detail include: butt and edge, mitres, notched and halved, mortise and tenon, and dovetail.

Essential Joinery

The Fundamental Techniques Every Woodworker Should Know

Author: Marc Spagnuolo

Category: Crafts & Hobbies

With the knowledge of only a handful of essential joints, a woodworker can build anything he can imagine. Whether it's a kitchen cabinet or an 18th century highboy, the foundation for all types of woodworking can be boiled down to a handful of essential joinery skills. Once learned, these joinery methods can be used to create almost anything the woodworker's mind can imagine. From the workshop of The Wood Whisperer, the popular YouTube host and best-selling author Marc Spagunolo teaches his preferred, time-tested methods for creating these joints. Rather than working solely by hand or machine, Spagunolo teaches woodworkers how to choose the joinery methods that make the most sense for the task at hand. And, in his easy-going and accessible style that promotes comfort and confidence, he provides several styles and methods for creating each joint. With Essential Joinery, beginners and pros alike will learn to hone the joinery skills that will take their woodworking to the next level.

Good Wood Joints

Author: Albert Jackson

Category: Joinery

This is a practical reference for all people in woodworking. It contains advice on how to select and construct the best joint for the job, and step-by-step instructions for all types of joint, whether hand- or machine-cut. A chart matches each joint to its function and the toolsthat can be used to cut it and the book also indicates whether a joint is suitable for use with hardwoods, softwoods or man-made boards. Comprehensive advice and instructions are accompanied by hundreds of step-by-step drawings and photographs.

The Complete Japanese Joinery

Author: Hideo Sato

Publisher: Hartley & Marks Publishers

Category: Crafts & Hobbies

La menuiserie japonaise complète est le manuel le plus accessible et le plus complet disponible en anglais sur l'art du travail du bois au Japon. Ce livre couvre tous les aspects du métier complexe et exigeant du travail du bois japonais, y compris le soin et l'utilisation des outils, la disposition et le marquage du bois, la découpe des joints et leur assemblage final.

Woodworker's Guide to Dovetails

How to Make the Essential Joint by Hand Or Machine

Author: Ernie Conover

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated

Category: Crafts & Hobbies

Learn to master the coveted dovetail joint using hand tools and the most popular router-driven jigs on the market today.

The Complete Book of Woodworking

Publisher: North American Affinity Clubs

Category: Carpentry

Includes how-to information.

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