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Like a regular bridle joint, a mitered bridle joint has a lot of long grain to long grain glue strength, but it has an attractive miter where the grain wraps around. This could be used on a door frame or the top of a jewelry box when a smoother aesthetic is desired. A mitered bridle joint has more steps to cut than a regular bridle joint, but this video breaks it down simply. This video was produced for its free video library by The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. The Center is a nonprofit, international woodworking school dedicated to providing the best possible education in wood craftsmanship and design.

The band saw is an essential machine to have in the workshop. It's a machine that can do many tasks that other machines can't. One of those tasks is resawing. Resawing is basically cutting large stock down, generally in its longer length but, the band saw is also capable of cutting stock into shorter widths to dissect boards into parts that can be used for smaller components and furniture. Additionally, the band saw is the one machine in your shop that can resaw veneer. This video was produced for its free video library by The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. The Center is a nonprofit, international woodworking school dedicated to providing the best possible education in wood craftsmanship and design.

A frame miter is just like it sounds; cutting miters on wood that will become a picture frame or door frame. This is different from a carcase miter, which is generating a box through mitering, and a different cutting process. There are multiple methods of cutting frame miters, such as using a miter fence on a table saw or using a chop saw. This video introduces a specific shop made jig to cut perfect miters. This video was produced for its free video library by The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. The Center is a nonprofit, international woodworking school dedicated to providing the best possible education in wood craftsmanship and design.

A bridle joint is a very strong joint that has a lot of long grain to long grain glue surface and is a great option when working with smaller sized components, such as a jewelry box lid or a small cabinet door where a regular mortise and tenon might have too small a shoulder area. This video was produced for its free video library by The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. The Center is a nonprofit, international woodworking school dedicated to providing the best possible education in wood craftsmanship and design.

A tapered leg is a popular design technique used in many types of furniture including desks, tables, dressers, and chairs. This technique gives furniture an elegant and refined look and is commonly seen in Shaker and Country style furniture. Tapers are relatively easy and can be cut in a variety of ways. This video will walk you through how to cut taper legs using a table saw or bandsaw. This video was produced for its free video library by The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. The Center is a nonprofit, international woodworking school dedicated to providing the best possible education in wood craftsmanship and design.

A housed stub tenon joint is used as a shelf joint or where the side of a carcase would meet the top. It is a strong joint that is invaluable for furniture making. This video will break down the steps and layout of making a housed stub tenon an easy and accurate joint to cut. This video was produced for its free video library by The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. The Center is a nonprofit, international woodworking school dedicated to providing the best possible education in wood craftsmanship and design.

A finger joint, also called a box joint, is machine cut joint that generates a lot of long grain to long grain glue strength and is a quick joint to cut once the machine is set up. It can be tricky to get a perfectly tight joint, but this video gives the techniques to achieve great finger joints. This video was produced for its free video library by The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. The Center is a nonprofit, international woodworking school dedicated to providing the best possible education in wood craftsmanship and design.

A carcase miter is a miter that has been cut on a box or case. This joint may be reinforced in a variety of ways, one of the most straight forward is using biscuits. A biscuit is like a little cookie made of compressed wood manufactured to be used in conjunction with a tool that cuts the slot for the biscuit called a biscuit joiner. This video was produced for its free video library by The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. The Center is a nonprofit, international woodworking school dedicated to providing the best possible education in wood craftsmanship and design.

A rabbet is when the material at the edge of a board is removed, usually along the grain, but can also run along the end grain. Rabbets are often found in the back of a carcass to house a back panel and in door frames where glass may be inserted. Rabbets are also found on panels where the edges are removed to fit into a frame. This video covers the various scenarios and types of rabbets. This video was produced for its free video library by The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. The Center is a nonprofit, international woodworking school dedicated to providing the best possible education in wood craftsmanship and design.

A carcase miter is a miter, a 45-degree joint usually, on a wide board that makes a carcase, as in a cabinet or case piece. The special aspect to using a miter in case construction is that it allows the grain to "wrap around" the piece. This video was produced for its free video library by The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. The Center is a nonprofit, international woodworking school dedicated to providing the best possible education in wood craftsmanship and design.

A dado is a cross-grain cut in a board. Unlike a groove that runs with the grain, a dado runs perpendicular to the grain. As with grooves, a dado can be a through cut, or a stop cut in the board surface. Often in dado joinery there can be deeper mortises interspersed along the dado to increase glue surface and joint strength. Also, a dado can be the full width of the board (referred to as a housing) or it can be a simple tongue on the edge of a board that will fit into a smaller dado, creating a shoulder. This video was produced for its free video library by The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. The Center is a nonprofit, international woodworking school dedicated to providing the best possible education in wood craftsmanship and design.