Thread: joining corners

Hey Tony,

What sort of stress & / or weight is on this cube?

Steve

Theres a few ways to skin a cat.

Screws or dowels are possibly the simplest ways to do it.

Though you could screw or dowel the whole lot together.

Originally Posted by echnidna

Theres a few ways to skin a cat.

Screws or dowels are possibly the simplest ways to do it.

Though you could screw or dowel the whole lot together.

Or Screws AND Dowels.

Screwing into Endgrain is rearly if ever the best option, but this method is easy, quick & strong.

The pic below illistrates to joints that my Table Saw lives on.

The coach screws have clearance holes all the way through to the Dowel. Its the dowel that clamps up the joint & keeps it tight. No glue required.

Steve

This is the same type of joint as joining the aprons of a table to the leg. So: mortice and tenon? dowels? three-way mitre?

Depends how neat and strong you need the joint to be.

Its all very simple and no weight bearing preasure at all.
Strong enough not to fall apart.

I'd be doing it using mortise and tenon and dovetails. Make two squares using mortise and tenon joints and then connect these with four uprights using dovetails.

Now Tony, if you hadn't laughed so unmercifully on another thread, I'd have offered my domino!

There are so many ways to skin a cat, assuming you aren't trying to make a piece of art, why not use the Ikea method?

Use those barbed furniture connecting bolts, designed for the purpose so they hold into the end grain. The whole thing can be dismantled to move it then.

Remember, any permanent joint will give you a bit of a challenge getting through doorways and so, on.

Cheers,

P

Thankyou gentlepeople another dumb Q answered with intelligence diplomicey and rare witt. Problem solvered.