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Wood is a material that can be used in a variety of ways. When it is used to make items such as furniture there may be several pieces that need to be joined together. There are many ways of joining pieces together and some of these are shown below and on the sheet two. JOINTS are used to join parts together either permanently or temporarily. |
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HALVED JOINTS |
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These are good examples of ‘Halved Joints’. In this type of joint one piece crosses over the other part. If you look closely you can easily see that a part of each piece of wood has been cut away so that they both fit together when they are finally glued together. Notice there are different names for each halving joint. |
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CROSS HALVING JOINT |
CROSS HALVING JOINT |
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TEE HALVING |
DOVETAIL HALVING |
HALF LAP |
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