Page 4 - Woodworking Joinery

  1. Using a Marking Knife

    Using a Marking Knife

    Improve your accuracy and cuts with this time-tested hand tool technique.
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  2. Making the Most of the Butterfly Spline Bit

    Making the Most of the Butterfly Spline Bit

    At first glance, the Butterfly Spline Bit (sometimes called a Butterfly Key Bit) seems like a very simple and limited use tool. But look closer and you can find a lot of useful applications for these splines.
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  3. Dovetail Joint Pin and Tail Patterns

    Dovetail Joint Pin and Tail Patterns

    Add a custom design to an already beautiful joint by adjusting the layout.
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  4. Making Rabbet Joints

    Making Rabbet Joints

    Understand the many types and applications of rabbet joints.
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  5. How to Handcut Dovetail Joints

    How to Handcut Dovetail Joints

    Making hand cut dovetail joints isn't as challenging as you may fear, thanks to an ingenious aluminum sawing jig.
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  6. Making Non-Permanent Glue Joints 



    Making Non-Permanent Glue Joints 



    Use a paper joint for joints you can easily take apart.
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  7. Using Your Router to Cut Dado Joints

    Using Your Router to Cut Dado Joints

    The router is the one tool that will handle all the dadoing and grooving you'll do in woodworking. The dado is prime-choice joinery. It follows that hoary adage of woodworking, "Use the simplest joint that will work."
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  8. Cutting Rabbets with a Piloted Router Bit

    Cutting Rabbets with a Piloted Router Bit

    Routing a rabbet is usually not difficult. Use a piloted rabbet bit in your router and guide it to cut perfect rabbets.
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  9. Making Half-lap Miter Joints with a Table Saw

    Making Half-lap Miter Joints with a Table Saw

    A long "platform" fence on your miter gauge makes these joints accurately with a dado blade.
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  10. How to Make Scarf Joints

    How to Make Scarf Joints

    How to repair table legs and other long parts with a simple joint.
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  11. Hand Cut Mortise and Tenon Joints

    Hand Cut Mortise and Tenon Joints

    Create a standard hidden (blind) mortise and tenon joint with just a few tools.
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