Joinery Drawings
Measured sketches of traditional woodworking joints.
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Half-lap joints
Half the thickness from each piece.
Timeouts and budgets for glue-ups
Glue has an open time of roughly ten minutes. That is the budget for the whole glue-up: dry-fit first, lay out clamps in order, and split a large assembly into
Dovetail ratios
1:6 for softwood, 1:8 for hardwood, by convention.
Drawbore pins
Offset holes pull the joint tight without clamps.