The Complete Illustrated Guide to
Joinery
by Gary
Rogowski
Hardcover
240 x 285mm
390pp
Published by The Taunton Press, Connecticut, USA.
R.R.P.$69.90
ISBN 1-56158-401-0
As reviewed in The Australian Woodworker Issue 104
Finally, a book that brings all the joinery methods used in general woodworking together under one roof, so to speak, in an accessible and easily understood manner.
Joinery, by Gary Rogowski, is designed to be a workshop text book. Like most student text books, it's a hefty hardcover with 390 pages, and it's priced accordingly. (For those of you who don't know how much a technical text book costs nowadays, sit down, take a deep breath, and see the price on the next page. Yep, that's about the going price for a serious technical text book nowadays.).
This book begins by looking at the tools required for different forms of joinery, offering both hand and machine methods for those that are capable of being produced either way.
The book divides the world of joints into two forms - carcase joinery and frame joinery.
The chapters on carcase joinery cover butt joints; rabbet, groove and dado joints; miter (sic) joints, finger joints, mortise and tenon joints, as well as dovetail joints.
The frame joints covered include butt joints; miter (sic) joints; lap and bridle joints; scarf and spline joints; and mortise and tenons.
Each section on a particular joint includes details of a number of variations, and how to construct each of them. For instance, in the section on mortise and tenons for frame joinery, the author covers simple mortise and tenons, round mortise and tenons, loose tenons, haunched tenons, multiple mortises, angled tenons, mating tenons, frame and panel assemblies, strengthening mortise and tenons with pegs and splines, through mortise and tenons, and a few other specialised variations.
Each joint construction is detailed with a series of close-up colour photographs, demonstrating the machine or hand operations in stages, along with a descriptive text explaining the procedure.
There is the expectation of some basic skill level in the reader, but for the most part this is limited to knowing how to use a marking gauge, and saw to a line. Even these steps are covered in the simpler joint constructions and introductory text at the beginning of each joint section. The techniques used cover the full range of tool skills - from basic hand to machine methods - but most of the work is done with everyday tools like saws, chisels, drills, planes, and the workbench.
A number of specialised jigs are detailed for use on the table saw, drill press and router table, to make the joint easier, safer and more efficient to manufacture.
Photos: Colour
Units of Measurement: Imperial
Contents
Introduction
How To Use
This Book
Part One - Tools For Joinery
Hand
Tools
Measuring
and Marking Tools
Cutting Tools
Drills and Drivers
Holding Jigs
Clamping Tools
Portable
Power Tools
Saws
Routers and Bits
Biscuit Joiners
Drills
Machines
Boring and Mortising
Edge Tools
Saws
Part Two - Carcase Joinery
Butt
Joints
Joints
with fasteners
Knockdown Joints
Biscuit Joints
Dowel Joints
Rabbet,
Groove and Dado Joints
Rabbets
Grooves
Dadoes
Shouldered
Dadoes
Dado Rabbets
Drawer Lock Joints
Tongue and Groove
Loose
Tongue Joint
Miter
Joints
Compound Miter
Biscuited Miter
Splined Miters
Keyed
Miters
Rabbeted Miter
Lock Miter
Finger
Joints
Finger Joints
Halved Joints
Mortise-and-Tenon
Joints
Stopped Joints
Through Joints
Dovetail
Joints
Through Dovetails
Half-Blind Dovetails
Full-Blind Dovetails
Sliding Dovetails
Slot Dovetails
Part Three - Frame Joinery
Butt
Joints
Screwed
Joint
Pocket-Hole Joint
Doweled Joint
Biscuit Joints
Miter
Joints
Butt Miter Joints
T or Cross Half Laps
Dovetail Lap Joint
Mitered Half-Lap Joints
Corner Bridle Joint
T Bridle Joint
Halved
Joint
One-Third Lap Joint
Bird's-Mouth Joints
Scarf
and Splice Joints
Simple Scarf Joints
Half-Lap Splice Joint
Bevel-Lap
Splice Joint
Tabled Joint
Lapped Dovetail Splice
Tapered Finger Joint
Cogged Scarf Joint
Edge
Joints
Edge
Joints
Edgebanding
Coopered Edge Joint
Reinforced Edge Joints
Tongue-and-Groove Edges
Mortise
and Tenons
Simple Mortises
Simple Tenons
Round Mortises
Round
Tenons
Loose Tenons
Haunched Tenons
Multiple Mortises
Angled Tenons
Mating Tenons
Frames and Panels
Strengthened Tenons
Special Joints
Through Mortises
Through Tenons
List
of Contributors
Further Reading
Index