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1 PANEL JOINTS Making Wood Wider: The Rubbed Joint Making Wood Wider: Cramped Joints and Thin Wood In the Workshop: Glued Joints Edge Jointing Edge Jointing (Continued) Making up to Width: Ways of Strengthening the Rubbed Joints About Panels and Their Grooves Fundamental Joints: Rubbed Joints...907

2 FRAME JOINTS Mortise and Tenon Joints Some Hints for Those Who May Not Yet Know: Simple Mortised & Tenoned Frames Points to Note When Cutting a Mortise and Tenon Elementary Workshop Practice: About Mortise and Tenon Joints Mortise and Tenon Joint Mortise and Tenon with Long and Short Shoulders Types of Mortise & Tenon Joints Fundamental Joints in Woodwork Types of Mortise & Tenon Joints Blind Mortise and Tenon Mortise and Tenon Long and Short Shoulder Joints in Everyday Use: Mortise and Tenon for Rebated Framework Mortise and Tenon Joint for Moulded and Rebated Framework Those Wretched Tenons! Mortise and Tenon Joint for Moulded and Rebated Framework Things that Go Wrong: Faults in Mortises & Tennons When Framing-Up Gives Trouble What Happens Inside a Mortise and Tenon Joint? How To Cut Wide Tenons When Cutting a Tenon Hold Saw On Waste Side Wedging Mortise and Tenon Joints Why The Haunch? The Haunch: Should it be Slope or Square? A Challenge: Chopping a Mortise Chopping a Mortise Chopping a Mortise Things They Don t Tell you: The Mitred Shoulder Mortise and Tenon Mitres Things You Should Know About Mitres The Mitre: How it Came to Be Used The Relative Advantages of Two Interesting Joints Considered: The Mitre and the Scribe The Combined Mitre and Scribe The Combined Mitre and Scribe Hints on Mitreing Notes on Mitreing Some Special Forms of Mitres...966

3 FRAME JOINTS Problems in Craftsmanship: Strengthening the Mitre Joint In the Workshop: Door Making Door Making Joints: Which Joint Shall I Use? Joinery: Framed, Ledged and Braced Doors The Ledged and Braced Door Making a Door With a Rebated-In Panel Making a Barred Door Loose Tongue Joints Grooving: Working Through Grooves Grooving: Stopped Grooves How to Work a Rebate: Through: Stopped: Sloping: With and Across the Grain The Bead Flush Panel Intersection Joints for Sash Bars Joints in Everyday Use: The Halved Joint The Halved Joint The Halving Joint Woodworker Joints: Halving Joint Strengthened Halved Joint The Casement Window Joint The Casement Window Joint Joinery: Casement Windows Bridle Joint Do You Use the Bridle Joint? How to Cut the Mitred Clamp Stages In Cutting the Mitred Clamp How to Work the Joints: Clamped Tops Some Interesting Lesser Used Joints The One-Third Lap Joint

4 DOVETAIL AND CARCASS Dovetails Common Dovetail Joint The Finer Points of Dovetailing Useful Hints on Dovetailing How to Cut Clean Dovetails Cutting the Through-Dovetail A Dovetail Should Fit Straight From the Saw Novel Method of Dovetailing: Sawing Dovetails and Pins in One Operation A Letter From a Reader: Cutting Dovetails Dovetails - A Jig for Cutting Them Dovetailing How to Make Your Dovetails Fit The Over-Tight Joint: Dovetails Does This Happen When You Chop Dovetails? Applications of the Dovetail Joints in Everyday Use: Carcase Dovetail Joint Taking Up Woodwork: Dovetail Joint, Example: Tea Tray Tricky Joints to Cut: The Tripod Table Dovetail Joint A Tapered Dovetail Helps In Making a Tight Fit The Mitre Dovetail How to Cut the Mitre Dovetail Secret Mitre Dovetail Lapped Dovetail Joint Lapped Dovetail Joint How to Cut the Lapped Dovetail Lap Dovetails The Lap and Double-Lap Dovetail The Double-Lap Dovetail Workshop Notes: Double-Lapped Dovetails Double-Lap and Secret Mitre Dovetail Dovetailed Housings The Dovetailed Housing Joint A Woodwork Supplement: The Stopped Housing Joint Bare-Faced Dovetail Housing Taking Up Woodwork: The Housed Joint - A Set of Bookshelves How to Cut Bevel Dovetails How To Do It: The Housed Dovetail Joint The Decorative Dovetail Special Dovetails Decorative Joints The Double-Dovetail Halving

5 DOVETAIL AND CARCASS Results of Experiments at The Forest Products Research Laboratory: Tests on the Strength of Dovetails The Awkward Jobs: Carcase Corner Joint Alternative Ways of Making Things: Corner Joints Corner Leg and Rail Joints Variation of the Mitre Dovetail: The Bureau Joint The Sideboard End Joint An Awkward Joint Ways of Joining a Flush Top To The Ends

6 MISCELLANEOUS JOINTS Joints You Should Know About How to Cut: The Knuckle Joint Workshop Practice: The Rule Joint Woodwork Information Chart Rule Joint The Rule Joint The Rule Joint Spliced Joints: How Three, Four, and More Point Slices are Cut Craft Problems: The Third-Lap Joint Craft Problems: Unusual Joints: When the Face Sides are Not in the Same Plane The Scarf Joint: Some Interesting Varieties Methods of Supporting Shelves Some Notes About Stretchers Some of the Joints Used in Various Stretchers Draw-Boring The A-Z of Joinery: Timber Terms The Coopered Joint How to Cut the: Scribed Joint Three-Way or Showcase Joint Cabriole Leg Joint Sculptured Joints Mediaeval Carpenters Joints Showing Their Application: Outdoor Woodwork Joints

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