Mitre joint

[sinjin]

Some time ago i saw a short vid clip showing and old carpenter making a 90 deg mitre joint. What was unusual about the Joint was the way he used a wedge to drive the joint tighter when he hit the wedge in. It was very impressive.
Has anyone got a link to this vid or any other similar ones. Just an idea but there are a few of these types of short clips around and maybe it would be an idea to have a section under Japanese hand tools for pics of joints and vid clips etc. Anyway just a thought
Sinjin

[BozInOz]

I haven't seen anything like that.
Have you got the link? I'm always interested in learning new and interesting techniques.

[Pheonix]

This type of joint used to be in a lot of the old casement winow frames,you know the types with the counter weights.Probably used for expansion in the weather etc.

[Schtoo]

http://toolsfromjapan.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/mitred-joint.jpg


Wasn't something like this was it?

(Picture shamelessly stolen from this blog (http://toolsfromjapan.com/wordpress/).

Well, not stolen since I took the picture to begin with...)

[sumu]

(Picture shamelessly stolen from this blog (http://toolsfromjapan.com/wordpress/).

Well, not stolen since I took the picture to begin with...)

To show That kind of picture to us lesser beings is almost cruel :D.

I am having hard time when choosing which one of those blog pics to use as a wallpaper!

Kippis big time,

sumu

[sinjin]

Nice joint but thats not the joint. In plan view the joint looks just like a 45 degree miter. All the trick stuff is hidden inside the joint. I'll have to do some searching i think.If i can't find it i'll draw one up on cad to show you what it was like.