Finger joint and butt joint, what are they?
When making a finger joint, "teeth" are routed out of both ends of the pieces to be joined. These fit together perfectly. You glue them and the joint becomes as strong as the rest of the material. If you look at, for example, a glulam beam, you can see finger joints. Making a finger joint requires industrial equipment. It's not something a home hobbyist can handle. A butt joint is when you join straight ends edge-to-edge. This joint is not nearly as strong, so it usually needs to be placed where there is some support.
Not quite!
Dove tail joints are meant for angle joints, like in drawer corners.
They were often used in the past for kitchen drawers. It's also called Laxstjärt.
A fingerskarv is called a "tapered finger splice joint" in English.
Dove tail joints are meant for angle joints, like in drawer corners.
They were often used in the past for kitchen drawers. It's also called Laxstjärt.
A fingerskarv is called a "tapered finger splice joint" in English.
Thank you very much! I am familiar with overlapping joints, but are there any other methods of joining?
And after some advertising in another thread, I also have it (or at least a similar book just about skarvar). References to it can be found here.
http://forum.byggahus.se/verktyg-maskiner-fordon/67992-kexning-vs-pluggning.html#post463897
http://forum.byggahus.se/verktyg-maskiner-fordon/67992-kexning-vs-pluggning.html#post463897