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HOW WOOD JOINTS ARE SET OUT, MADE & USED

WITH FOUR HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS

Old Oak Chests, showing the Method of Structure which forms the origin of most of our English Furniture. (From The Woodworker, January, 1927.)

EDITORIAL FOREWORD

To be successful in woodwork construction the possession of two secrets is essential—to know the right joint to use, and to know how to make that joint in the right way. The woodwork structure or the piece of cabinet-work that endures is the one on which skilful hands have combined to carry out what the constructive mind planned. And it is just here that the present Volume will help, not alone the beginner who wishes preliminary instruction, but also the expert who desires guidance over ground hitherto unexplored by him.

Staircase of the Second Half of Seventeenth Century. (From The Woodworker, September, 1929.)

In the preparation of this new edition the Publishers have secured the services of Mr. William Fairham, by whom the chapters have been carefully revised and re-illustrated. Although intended for the practical man, and not professing to be a graded course of “educational woodwork,” the Volume is one which Handicraft Instructors will find of the greatest value in conducting woodwork classes. No book hitherto published contains such a variety of illustrations of joints, almost all of which will form suitable exercises of practical educational importance in a woodworking course.

J. C. S. B.

Originally from 1927!

This site is based a book ‘Woodwork Joints’ that dates from 1927. Originally part of a ‘woodworker series’ published by Evans Brothers Ltd, Montague House, Russell Square, London WC1 and now in the Public Domain