Wood Joint Design

Wood joinery is one of the most basic concepts in woodworking. If we did not have the ability to join two pieces of wood together in a solid fashion, all woodworking pieces would be sculptures, carved out of a single piece of wood. However, with the many varied types of wood joinery, a woodworker has a number of different joints in his arsenal from which to choose, based upon the project.

Wood Joinery
Straight lip joint

It is the simplest type of connection, the strength of the connection is weak because each is half dented, so it is used for the stem which is all of its surface retained (eg beam wall / murplat). The connection is reinforced with nails or bolts.

Straight Wood Joinery
This type of connection is used when there is a tension arising on the rod, and the entire surface of the rod is retained. The connection is reinforced with nails or bolts.

Straight angled Wood Joinery
This connection is used to connect the gording that is carried by the horses. The location near the horses, not the closing lips.

Lock Side Wood Joinery
This type of connection is used for the construction of both the horse beam and the horses' horses, as it produces both tensile and pressure strength.
The location of the lock on the pull beam is on top, while on the horses' legs are on top.

The clip lock Wood Joinery
The clip key connection can neutralize the secondary moments that occur in the locked connection of the sides. The resulting strength is better, but less precisely used for horses

Butt Joint is the end of a piece of wood is butted against another piece of wood. This is the simplest and weakest joint. Of those, there is the a or 1) T-butt, b or 2) end-to-end butt, c or 3) T-lap d) Miter butt and e) edge-to-edge butt.

Lap joint is the end of a piece of wood is laid over and connected to another piece of wood. This is the next simplest and weakest joint.

Bridle joint is Also known as open tenon, open mortise and tenon, or tongue and fork joints, this joint is where the mortise is open on one side and forms a fork shape. The mate has a through tenon or necked joint. Bridle joints are commonly used to join rafter tops, also used in scarf joints and sometimes sill corner joints in timber framing.

Finger joint is Also known as a box joint, is a corner joint with interlocking fingers. Receives pressure from two directions.

Mortise and tenon is A stub (the tenon) will fit tightly into a hole cut for it (the mortise). This is a hallmark of Mission Style furniture, and also the traditional method of jointing frame and panel members in doors, windows, and cabinets. This joint is a good joint to use.

Other wood joinery ideas:
Tongue and groove
Groove joint
Dado joint
Dovetail joint
Finger joint
Miter joint
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Wood joining
Timber joints
Wood joint fasteners
Wood joint tool
Wood joining biscuits


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