Addition and joints

Question 1

What should one take car when nailing>?

Answer 1

Staggered positions of nails can help avoid splitting the timber along grain.
DOVETAILING will make the fixing stronger as nails are OPPOSITELY ANGLED.

Question 2

Butt Joints description and usage.

Answer 2

Nailing/gluing the ends of timbers. Can be WEAK so strengthened with CORNER PIECES or fasteners.

Building frames, cabinets and boxes.

Question 3

Dowel joints description and usage.

Answer 3

Drilled hole in one timber and dowels in another and clamped together with glue.

Chair and table legs, cabinets and panels

Question 4

Comb/finger joint

Answer 4

rectangular cuts ion timber interlock at 90 degrees like fingers and glued.

tables and chairs, roof and door cinstruction

Question 5

Dovetail joints

Answer 5

comb joint but dovetail cuts which makes them MORE RESISTANT TO PULLING APART

cabinets, drawers and wardrobes.