1. Common Woodworking Joints
Beginning Woodworking
Joints

2. Butt Joints Edge Butt Joint End Butt Joint -Used to make boards wider
-Strong
End Butt Joint
-Not very strong,
-Must be reinforced

3. Dowel Joint
-Very Strong
-Used to make butt joints stronger

4. Biscuit Joint -Used to strengthen end butt joints or edge joints.
-Not as strong as dowel joints.
- A type of a spline joint.

5. Mortise & Tenon Joint
-Very Strong
-Used on leg and rail construction

6. Rabbet Joint -Used to insert a back panel into the back of a cabinet.
-Characteristic: Always on the end or edge of a board. Goes with or across the grain.
-Used to insert a back panel into the back of a cabinet.
-Cut ¼” deep.
-Cut as wide as the board going into it.

7. Dado Joint
- Characteristic: Across the Grain and in the middle of a board.
-Cut ¼” deep, As wide as the board going into it.
-Used to hold a fixed shelf

8. Groove (Plough) Joint -In the middle of a Board.
- Characteristic: Goes with the Grain.
-In the middle of a Board.
-Cut ¼” deep and as wide as the board going it.
-Used for drawer bottoms.

9. Miter Joint Plain Miter Flat Miter
-Main purpose is to cover end grain.
-Can be reinforced.
-Used on the corners of picture frames.

10. Advanced Furniture Woodworking Joints

11. Tongue & Groove
-Used on hardwood Flooring

12. Spline Joint -Separate piece of Wood glued inside.
-Used to strengthen a miter or edge joint.

13. Blind (Stopped) Dado -Does not go clear through.
-Stops about ¾”-1” short.
-Used so you don’t see the joint.

14. Dovetail
-Used in the best Drawer Construction.

15. Pocket Screw Joint
-Used in place of a dowel Joint or Mortise and Tennon
-Used on a face frame.

16. Lap Joint