I made this keepsake box using sapele for the wood and finger joints or box joints for the joinery.
Woodworking joints for boxes. The joint relies on glue to hold together. So the idea behind box joint though is you can see is it s equal parts are taken out of each face of the wood. First nearly all dovetail jigs can cut box joints. Joinery is a part of woodworking that involves joining together pieces of wood or lumber to produce more complex items.
The woodworking joint is. The most famous locked joint is the dovetail. It is much like a dovetail joint except that the pins are square and not angled. This is a great weekend woodworking project.
How to make finger joints and how to lay out box parts for grain matching. They are elegant and strong and are great for. Previous videos in the series can be found here. So cutting these is usually done on a.
While you should check the documentation that accompanies your jig for the exact instructions the setup is basically just like cutting the tails of a dovetail joint except that the bit would be a straight cutting bit rather than a dovetail bit. Make a dovetail box in 12 minutes wood magazine duration. A finger joint or box joint is one of the popular woodworking joints. You use it to join two pieces of wood at right angles to each other.
Strong great looking and quickly made box joints are an especially good choice when you have a large number of items to produce. The jig for making box joints was simple and quick. Box joints are the savvy woodworker s alternative to dovetails. Tablesaw box joints a shop made jig with micro adjust guarantees perfect joints.
Quick and easy and you don t need a dado stack. It does not have the mechanical strength of a dovetail. 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. And so you get this tabbed slot design.
If you don t want to cut the fingers by hand there are two ways to machine them. Derive from the properties of the materials involved and the purpose of the joint. Wood magazine 1 729 742 views. By tim johnson.
The characteristics of wooden joints strength flexibility toughness appearance etc. How to make a finger joint box joint jig. How to make box joints easily without any jigs duration.