Wood joints

Types of wood joints are something you can learn even if you're not a carpenter. The smell of fresh-cut wood alone is enticing.

I wanted to make the base of the little land bigger than the initial prototype where the base was 9*9 inches. I realized that the surface area was too small to build upon. Nikita made an observation at Jaaga where i exhibited little land, she said when kids played with it due to the small surface area, they began asking her to hold the pieces separately around the base, trying to expand the area. So i thought of things: 1. Having a base the size of a small table so kids could sit around and…

Gallery of Joints — WoodRat

Learn how to make simple and strong half lap joints. WOOD magazine's Jim Heavey shows you tips and techniques on your tablesaw to achieve a perfect joint that is solid and strong. Picture frames and door frames never looked so good.

The Japanese art of tsugite, or wood joinery, goes back more than a millennium. As still practiced today, it involves no nails, screws, or adhesives at all, yet it can be used to put up whole buildings — as well as to disassemble them with relative ease.

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Wood is considered an attractive construction material for both esthetic and environmental purposes. Construction of useful wood objects requires complicated structures and ways to connect components. Researchers have created a novel 3-D design application to simplify the design process and also provide milling machine instructions to produce the designed components. The designs do not require nails or glue, meaning items made with this system can be easily assembled, disassembled, reused…