s 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.

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.

[Illustration: Old Oak Chests, showing the Method of Structure which
forms the origin of most of our English Furniture. (From _The
Woodworker_, January, 1927.)]

CONTENTS

PAGE

THE GLUED JOINT 1

THE HALVED JOINT 13

THE BRIDLE JOINT 35

THE TONGUED AND GROOVED JOINT 48

THE MORTISE AND TENON JOINT 64

THE DOWELLING JOINT 93

THE SCARF JOINT 103

THE HINGED JOINT 109

SHUTTING JOINTS 127

THE DOVETAIL JOINT 132

DOVETAIL GROOVING 160

THE MITRED JOINT 163

JOINTS FOR CURVED WORK 172

MISCELLANEOUS JOINTS 176

PUZZLE JOINTS 189

INDEX 209

[Illustration: Staircase of the Second Half of Seventeenth Century. (From
_The Woodworker_, September, 1929.)]

THE GLUED JOINT

The glued joint in its various forms is in use in every country in the
world, and is frequently met with in mummy cases and other examples of
ancient woodwork. Alternative names under which it is known are the butt
joint, the rubbed joint, the slipped joint, whilst in certain localities
it is known as the slaped (pronounced _slayped_) joint.

[Illustration: Fig. 1.--Simplest Form of Glued or Rubbed Joint.]

The glued joint is made by planing two pieces of timber so that when
placed together they