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A Word on Woodworking Joinery Techniques for Exterior Wood Assemblies |
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#1: THE BUTT JOINT |
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A Gate illustrating the Butt Joint and diagonal bracing. |
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#2: THE HALF LAP JOINT |
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| #3: THE OPEN THROUGH TENON JOINT |
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| #4: THE BLIND MORTISE & TENON JOINT |
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| #5: THE FLOATING TENON JOINT |
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| #6: THE FULL THROUGH TENON JOINT |
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| #7: THEACTION FIGURE JOINT? |
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To the right we have a CPW Pergola designed and built in the early 90's illustrating the flush joinery that provides not only a departure in aesthetics, but a far stronger assembly designed to last several lifetimes. The overhead units are a series of small panels joined and set into place with a louvre affect. There are no metal fasterners, nail, or screws anywhere within the assembly. |
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To the right we have a CPW Fence, gate, and complimenting Arbor as a married assembly that provides us not only a visual confluence of the three elements, but each of them once again joined without metal fasteners. |
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To the right, A Prowell fence-line in San Francisco, illustrating 150-running feet of flush joinery. The horizontal members are mortised and pinned to 4" posts every 8 feet. The top cap is butterfly joined at every other post. |
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A few examples to help illustrate the alluring tempation toward joinery as performance art.
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As a small part of an extensive CPW interior design, the use of the traditional, yet modified, Finger Joint adds an alternative flavor to the standard Butt Joint more commonly used here. |
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The above finger-joint wildly popularized by Greene and Green in 1917. Brothers and architects whose greatest asset was a lifelong association with a top notch team of woodworkers who realized their designs with flawless workmanship. Below, a detail known to any of their legions of fans. This can be seen on a public tour of the Gamble House inPasadena, CA |
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Why is this important? Why do we concern ourselves excessivley over a piece that will never see the ravages of the elements and live it's life within the confines of a controlled temperature? What if, say, you build the table in San Francisco, where the climate is as temperate as anywhere on earth, and ship it to South Carolina, where the climate is as fluxtuaing as a Mama Bear in heat? If you aspire for a larger patronage and a scope that encompasses all climatic regions, you must, absolutely must, know your joints and their properties. Left: Prowell oversees the early apprenticing of Ben (on the table) and his older brother Sam. These two were sooo cute at that age. All along, actually, from newborns until this very day, as young men with the social graces of an innate courtesy toward all. That's a good thing, right? |
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