19 Ways to Join CNC Corners
Billiam simulated 19 different wood joints to find which was the strongest, fastest, and easiest.
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How to Digitally Design Joinery for Better Assembly
If you’re making two pieces meant to fit together, you’ll want to know these basic best practices for designing joinery in CAD programs.
50 Digital Wood Joints Poster
Print out this poster of 50 digital wood joints, compiled by Jochen Gross and laid out by Meredith Scheff-King.
Cutting Dovetail Joints by Hand
Dovetail joints are an ancient way of mating two pieces of wood at a corner. Often used in cabinet-making, the dovetail joint is both extremely strong, and aesthetically pleasing.
Workshop: Len Cullum in Seattle, Washington
Making Connections By Laura Cochrane Photography by John Keatley Neatly lined up along the walls of Len Cullum’s 1,500-square-foot north Seattle workshop are handmade Japanese chisels, saws, and planes. In a building rumored to have once been a shark oil processing plant, Cullum, 46, creates Japanese-style shoji doors and windows, garden structures, and furniture. Cullum constructs […]
Cool CNC Lounge Chair Design
To me, Gustav Düsing’s Chair 23D seems like a notable landmark in the development of what Bruce Sterling famously referred to, back in MAKE Vol 11, as “router aesthetics.”
CNC Panel Joinery Notebook
A collection of clever ways of slotting flat stock together for CNC, laser cutters, and conventional material cutting and joining.