Craft · 6 pages · 12 min
How joinery hides or shows the structure
Some joints leave the interlocking wood in plain sight, and some stop the same lock behind a surface.
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From the opening
Joinery is the cut geometry that locks two pieces of wood, and that geometry can be left where the eye can see it or stopped short of the show face. Showing the joint makes the way the piece holds together part of the surface, while hiding it lets the surface read as unbroken. The opening covers through joints leave the end grain, blind joints stop inside, and a miter can hide the lock.
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Inside
- Through joints leave the end grain
- Blind joints stop inside
- A miter can hide the lock
- Half-blind is still a dovetail
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- Through and half-blind dovetails
- Blind mortise and tenon joints