MSRaynsford

Dominic  has been a fan of these assembly brackets for some time now, he even went as far as making a set and posting them onto thingiverse . I had to glue some wood sheets at right angles to each other and these seemed to be the right thing for the job so I cut myself a set too and glued everything appropriately. Pretty useful but mine were only 6mm thick to tended to flick themselves flat until I got the second clamp into place.

A different take on the living hinge, one single continous line allows this to be bent in different ways to the other hinges I've made before. You'll all be pleased to know that this is the last cut of the panel joinery article, it's been great for me to play catch up with. There will be one more post as a round up but I'm working on something clever for that so I hope you'll appreciate it. 271/283

Several bulb joints can be connected in line to fold right back over itself 269/282

A variation of the previous bulb joint that allows the join to rotate through 90 degree 268/281

I like this rounded interlock on a joint, might have to try and include this in some things. 267/280

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Captive nuts can also be added to make a really secure joint 262/276

The box joint can be biased by making the tabs different sizes. 261/275

This is a box joint, the fingers are all of equal size and interleaved to create the joint. 259/274

This joint introduces a captive nut to hold the joint together. 257/273

Snaps can be added to the joint to prevent them allow it to clip in an out easily. 253/271

Mortice and tenon joints can also be biased. 252/270

The mortice and tenon joint can be split into multiple tabs and slots 251/269

A simple mortice and tenon joint. This is the one I use in most of my designs already, the shoulder allows the piece to slot in and not go too far through the hole. 250/269

I'm working on a few 'secret' projects right now, which is fun and interesting but doesn't leave me much to post so it's back to the joinery for the time being. I know these are less interesting but it's allowed me to catch up and frees me up to work on the better items. 249/269

I've now done all the images for the first part of the Joinery Article. I rounded up the patterns and put them into one file for you ( svg here )

This latch has the same locking effect but it is much harder to release. So we're halfway through the article now. I'll put this one to bed for a week or so before progressing with the other half. I'll have a quick round up post tomorrow and release the files to go alongside these cuts. (I expect I'll have a big session updating all the files for previous posts so if you want anything in particular now is the time to ask) 234/259

Locks can also be added to this type of joint. This one has the locks in the static section of the joint. (not very clear I know) 233/258