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4th May 2022, 06:47 PM #1
Various Joints - strengths and tests
This mad lad went and did some "science" to determine which is the strongest joint.
There is a good selection: box, mitre, splined mitre, dovetail, lamello, domino, dowelled and butt.
Guess which was strongest?
I was rather surprised. The results are hardly science, but it was illuminating to see how strong some of these are in the real world.
I felt people might be interested in this. There is also one posted a few months back on long-grain and short-grain gluing and their respective strengths (which conclusively showed out prejudices are wrong!)
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4th May 2022, 07:20 PM #2SENIOR MEMBER
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Interesting but a single sample of each joint is not enough to draw any firm conclusions. There have been better tests.
Matthias Wendel has done some testing
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4th May 2022, 07:36 PM #3Intermediate Member
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Yes, I saw this the other day. few surprises on the facwe of it. Althouhg, after watching a second video about choosing the right joint for the job, one of the take outs was consider the loading direction. This then made me think back to this video and probably explains why the dovetail performed the way it did - it just gets pryed out the way it went in.
But if the test was carried out in trying to pull the drawer face off a drawer, the result would be very different between the dovetail and mitre
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