Woodwork Joints: How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used (Classic Crafts)

WOODWORK JOINTS is a resource as valuable today as the it was the day it was released. Skillfully prepared in a time before power tools enabled craftsmen—and craftswomen—to make the precision cuts described with greater certainty and ease, it explores in detail the essential woodwork joints still vital today. (from the Foreward) “To be successful in woodwork construction the possession of two secrets is essential—to know the right joint to use, and to know how to make that joint in the right way. The woodwork structure or the piece of cabinet-work that endures is the one on which skilful hands have combined to carry out what the constructive mind planned. … No book hitherto published contains such a variety of illustrations of joints, almost all of which will form suitable exercises of practical educational importance in a woodworking course.