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Advanced Joinery

Thursday, July 21 from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Session Code: TH46

Track: Handcrafted Furniture

Speaker: Philip C. Lowe, The Furniture Institute of Massachusetts

Furniture requires a wide range of joinery skills.  Most people learn basic dovetail and mortise and tenon joints first, but these methods can be extended to cover many complex applications.  Learning how to cut complex joints with hand tools will improve your bench skills and help you understand some machine tool approaches.  Four different joints will be demonstrated. Each is presented in a series of steps, from layout to the construction of simple jigs which will aide in the cutting strategies. They include slot dovetails, which can be used for drawer dividers and attaching legs to columns; angled dovetails for drawer construction that isn’t square; angle tenons used in chair construction; and mortise and tenons for curved parts.  Typical uses for each joint will be explained, along with design considerations.  The skills demonstrated will surely be helpful with many advanced projects.

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