AW Extra 5/23/13 - Elegant Tabletop Fasteners | Popular Woodworking Magazine
Elegant Tabletop Fasteners By Tom Caspar On my best work, I want the bottom of my project to look as good as the top. That’s when I make an old-fashioned set of wooden tabletop fasteners, or “buttons,” rather than use the modern stamped-steel type. A button allows a solid-wood top to expand and contract through the seasons. When the top’s grain runs parallel to the rail, the button slides …
DIY Drawers: Lock-Joint Introduction | WWGOA | Woodworking Video
In this DIY drawers video, get an introduction to lock-joints. Drawers take a lot of abuse. If you want to provide quality work, it’s best to assemble drawer corners with a joint that can stand up over time. Drawer lock joints provide a mechanical grab, almost a tongue and groove, between the drawer side and front, and they also increase the glue surface area, making for a very strong joint. With a little practice, you can overcome the fussy set up the bit requires.
Tablesaw Box Joints | Popular Woodworking
Tablesaw Box Joints A shop-made jig with micro-adjust guarantees perfect joints. By Tim Johnson Box joints are the savvy woodworker’s alternative to dovetails. Strong, great-looking and quickly made, box joints are an especially good choice when you have a large number of items to produce. To make them, you need your tablesaw, a miter gauge, a dado set and a simple shop-made jig (Fig. A, below). I’ll show you …
