. Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building; a general reference work ... Fig. 84. Method of Binding Boards Together by Means of Dovetail Key the center strip being fastened to one of the pieces only. Thisarrangement takes up a little more room than the others andlooks somewhat more clumsy but is quite satisfactory otherwise. Inall three of the methods described, the strip should be from 3 to 4inches wide. Dovetailing. There is another way of joining two pieces meet-ing at right angles, and it is better and stronger than any other but,on account of the work involved in the process of
. Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building; a general reference work ... Fig. 84. Method of Binding Boards Together by Means of Dovetail Key the center strip being fastened to one of the pieces only. Thisarrangement takes up a little more room than the others andlooks somewhat more clumsy but is quite satisfactory otherwise. Inall three of the methods described, the strip should be from 3 to 4inches wide. Dovetailing. There is another way of joining two pieces meet-ing at right angles, and it is better and stronger than any other but,on account of the work involved in the process of making the joint, 78 CARPENTRY 69 is seldom used except in the best work. This method is known asdovetaihng and there are three different ways of arranging the dove-tails as will be shown. The first is the simple dovetail which is illus-trated in Fig. 87. As will be seen, it consists in cutting tenons in theend of one piece and mortises in the end of the other piece, which areof such a shape as to form a sort of locking device, so that the pieces. Fig. 85. Method of Binding Boards Together by Means of Strip with Slots and Screws can be separated only by a pull in one particular direction. The useof glue makes the joint still stronger. Of course, the forming of ajoint of this kind requires a large amount of time and considerableskill. A variation of the simple dovetail joint which is much used inthe manufacture of drawers and in any other position where it isdesirable that the joint shall be concealed from one side only, isshown in Fig. 88. This is called a lap dovetail, its peculiarity 79 70 CARPENTRY consisting in the fact that in one of the pieces the mortises arenot cut the full thickness, but only partly through the wood,so as to leave a covering or lap, which prevents the joint frombeing seen. A further development of the dovetail joint is shown in Fig. this case the work is so arranged that the joint can not be seen
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