GROUP MEMBERS: Daniel Franze, Ryan Flanagan, Ben Bannan
DESCRIPTION AND/OR PICTURES EXPLAINING JOINT:
A dovetail joint or simply dovetail is a joint technique most commonly used in woodworking joinery. A series of pins cut to extend from the end of one board interlock with a series of tails cut into the end of another board.
Large Dovetail Joint
There are four types of dovetail joints:
Through dovetail
Half-blind dovetail
Sliding dovetail
Full-blind dovetail
ADVANTAGES/DISADVANTAGES:
Strongest of all joints. Large gluing area. Interlocking Resists being pulled apart. Looks attractive. Would hold together even with no glue. Can be fairly difficult to mark out and cut. If badly made this joint looses the advantages listed above.
WHEN AND WHERE WOULD THIS TYPE OF JOINT BE USED?
The dovetail joint is commonly used to join the sides of a drawer to the front.
It is also used to join boxes, carcases, frames, brackets and cabinets.
WHAT DO I NEED TO CONSTRUCT THIS TYPE OF JOINT?
Dovetails can be made with hand tools or machine tools, often with an electric router and using one of range of commercially available jigs or templates.Some hand tools needed to make a dovetail joint:
GROUP MEMBERS: Daniel Franze, Ryan Flanagan, Ben Bannan
DESCRIPTION AND/OR PICTURES EXPLAINING JOINT:
A dovetail joint or simply dovetail is a joint technique most commonly used in woodworking joinery. A series of pins cut to extend from the end of one board interlock with a series of tails cut into the end of another board.There are four types of dovetail joints:
ADVANTAGES/DISADVANTAGES:
WHEN AND WHERE WOULD THIS TYPE OF JOINT BE USED?
The dovetail joint is commonly used to join the sides of a drawer to the front.It is also used to join boxes, carcases, frames, brackets and cabinets.
WHAT DO I NEED TO CONSTRUCT THIS TYPE OF JOINT?
Dovetails can be made with hand tools or machine tools, often with an electric router and using one of range of commercially available jigs or templates.Some hand tools needed to make a dovetail joint:REFERENCES:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovetail_jointhttp://www.technologystudent.com/joints/dovejts.htm