This is a task that is commonly assigned to beginner woodworkers to expand upon their joint cutting skills. Because not only does this test the accuracy of hand cut joinery itself, but also accurate sizing, layout and finishing among many other key woodworking principles.
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In this lesson, I’ll be showing you how to accurately mark out the lap joint, dovetail halving joint, bridle joint, and through mortice and tenon joint.
In this lesson, we start cutting out the halving joint and the dovetail halving joint using the precise lines we marked in the previous lesson.
In this lesson, I show you how to cut the bridle joint and the through mortice and tenon joint in order to get maximum accuracy with zero gaps.
In this lesson, I show you a few methods to flush off the joints to hide any remaining gaps, and we see what result we are left with!