Category Archives: Joinery

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Woodwork Joints (free download)

The other day I received a newsletter from The Book Depository in my mailbox where they anounced 11.000 (yes, that is eleven thousand) free ebooks available for download. Wow!

I instantly jumped on their website and started searching for woodworking books… but sadly, there was only one woodworking book in thousands of free ebooks. Continue reading this post…

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Making a twisted dovetail box

Here is another great article by John Bullar, once again featuring fantastic joinery.

These twisted dovetails (or nejiri arigata in Japanese) will give any piece an exquisite handmade look. Continue reading this post…

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Japanese joinery

Correy Smith, a regular at the Japanese Woodworking Forums published some great photos of his latest project – a “Quasi DownEast Chinese Tansu”.

This piece features exquisite exposed joinery that take the build to a higher level of craftsmanship. The three way miter is one of my favorites on this piece. Continue reading this post…

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Dovetail nirvana

A while back, while doing some research on dovetailed carcass construction I came across this article by John Bullar.

I kept the original link in one of my Firefox tabs but it seems that it is no longer available. * Continue reading this post…