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Techniques d'Assemblages

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Woodworking joints. Joinery is a part of woodworking that involves joining together pieces of wood, to produce more complex items.

Woodworking joints

Some wood joints employ fasteners, bindings, or adhesives, while others use only wood elements. The characteristics of wooden joints - strength, flexibility, toughness,appearance, etc. - derive from the properties of the joining materials and from how they are used in the joints. Therefore, different joinery techniques are used to meet differing requirements. For example, the joinery used to build a house is different from that used to make puzzle toys, although some concepts overlap. List of joints[edit] 50 Digital Wood Joints. Wood Joints are fascinating!

50 Digital Wood Joints

They embellish old furniture and wood constructions of ancient Japanese temples alike. Everytime we come across them, we are filled with admiration: Admiration for the skill of the master craftsman, as their creator, but also admiration for the balance between function and beauty, which turns the furniture or temple into a work of art. With the onset of industrialisation, the traditional wood joints have been banned more and more to the background. Manufacturing has to be above all efficient, so there is no more room for traditional wood joints.

Davetone mixcubes. Figuring out a use for ‘50 digital wood joints‘ I posted about earlier sure didn’t take too long..

Davetone mixcubes

Simply ‘extremely inspirational’, and I doubt the content provided can be over-advertised ;) DaveP’s completed speaker The actual project this time around is a pair of Auratone 5C clones by DaveP @ GroupDIY, complemented by the aforementioned woodworking finesse. Breaking from my norm of writing multiple work stage posts, I decided to try rolling everything to a single post.