How to join
2 Pieces Of Wood End To End
Joining Boards End to End 013
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I guess I'm Brian McCauley and welcome
to the McCauley's design workshop so I'm
working on a trestle table and I need a
stretcher to go between the two legs I
really want to use this stocks it's nice
and beefy and it'll go with the legs
really well unfortunately I don't have
any that's long enough so what I need to
do is join these two pieces of wood in
the end so let me show you how I'm gonna
do it so I'm basically making a half lap
joint here and I've got my dado stack
adjusted to a height that is just below
what I actually need and here to start
out I'm just going to remove material
from very ends of Fords that way if I
overshoot it I can just cut that small
section off and start over and here you
can see my blade was not high enough so
they don't go together
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so I'm making a very slight adjustment
to the height of the blade and we'll do
it again until they fit
and that there's a good fit and now I'll
finish the half laps on each board using
a stop block to make sure that the
lengths are exactly the same
and sliding them together checking that
fit and we see that everything lines up
nice and tight next step is to glue it
all together and with the glue dry I'm
just gonna run it through my planer a
couple times just to take off a tiny bit
of material and clean up that joint just
a little bit and because this will be
visible I want to lay out where the pegs
are gonna go symmetrically on the board
so I'm laying them right in the middle
of the joint and about an inch and a
half from the top and the bottom of the
board I'm going to be pegging this with
half inch dowels so I've got a 1/2 inch
force in a bit and then we'll put some
glue on the dowels and drive them
through the joint
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and once they're through we'll just trim
them off with the saw and flush them up
with the block plane
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and here it is two boards joined end to
end with a pegged half lap so there you
have it this is one way to join two
pieces of wood and end there of course
lots of other ways to do with are tons
of other joinery methods different hand
cut methods as well as machine cut I
could have just used my Domino and glued
them together that way I think this adds
a little an aesthetic appeal to it
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