Woodwork

housing joint

For our Woodwork projects, we are going to be making spice racks. For this, we needed to practice the housing joint with Mr Nugent. We had to mark out one piece of wood with the face side and face edge and then split it in half so that we could cut two pieces from it. We then had to mark out where we would be making the trench so that we could place the second piece in to make the joit. After we had everything marked out, we had to start by sawing down to where we had marked with the marking gauge on the trench. We then began using the chisel to get all the excess wood out of the trench. When that had been finished and we had checked that a piece of wood would fit in the trench, we then started to saw the piece in half. We place the joint together and then using two nails, we hammered it together so that the joint was more secure. We placed some wood glue above the nail place and then sanded over that so that the nail was less obvious. I was happy with my joint although a small part of the piece chipped off when I was chiselling and I was pleased that I got 85% for it.