wood is inlaid across the joint. This
is a favorite joint with Oriental joiners.

[Illustration: Fig. 258. Devices for Gluing Beveled Edges.]

_No. 58. A ledge and miter or lipped miter joint_, Fig. 268, is made
by rabbeting and mitering the boards to be joined so that the outer
portion of the two boards meet in a miter. It is strong and good
looking and may be glued or nailed. It is used for fine boxes.

_No. 59. A stopped miter_, Fig. 268, is useful for joining pieces of
different widths, when both sides can be seen.

[Illustration: Fig. 259. Column-Clamp.]

_No. 60. A double-tongue miter_, Fig. 268, is made by cutting on the
adjoining edges tongues which engage in each other. It is used in high
class joinery, on members that join lengthwise of the grain.

_No. 61. A stretcher joint_, Fig. 268, is a slip joint in which one or
both sides is mitered. It is used in frames for stretching canvass for
paintings by driving wedges from the inside. Two forms are shown in
61a and 61b.

_No. 62. A strut joint_, Fig. 268, is a form of miter joint used in
making trusses.

_No. 63 and 64. A thrust joint or tie joint or toe joint_, Fig. 268,
is one in which two beams meet at an oblique angle, one receiving the
thrust of the other. The toe may be either square as in 63, or oblique
as in 64. The pieces are bolted or strapped together with iron. It is
used for the batter braces of bridges.

_No. 65. A plain brace joint_, Fig. 269, is one in which the brace is
simply mitered and nailed into place. It is used for bracket supports.

No. _66. A housed brace joint_, Fig. 269, is a joint in which the
brace is housed into the rectangular members except that the outer end
of the mortise is cut at right angles and the inner end diagonally to
receive the brace which is cut to correspond. It is much stronger than
65.

_No. 67. An oblique mortise-and-tenon or bevel-shoulder joint_,
Fig. 269, is one in which the shoulders of the tenoned beam are cut
obliquely and its end is cut off at right angles. The cheeks of the
mortise are correspondingly sunk. By these means the tenon prevents
lateral motion while the whole width of the beam presses against the
abutment. Thus a much larger bearing surface is obtained. The whole is
bolted or strapped together. It is used in heavy truss work.

_No. 68. A bridle joint_, Fig. 269, is an oblique joint in which a
bridle or "tongue" is left in an oblique notch cut out of one beam.
Over this tongue is