On Topic. How to stretch a board.

[DerbyDad03]

Wait! Am I in the wrong ng?

Isn't this rec.overthink-everything?

[John McCoy]

Bill wrote in news: [e-mail]:

That's fair. That joint was not a cabinetry joint, which is the subject we're mainly concerned with. It was a joint from the ship-building or timber-framing world. Interesting from an engineering standpoint, and interesting from a historical standpoint (as others noted, exceptionally complex joints were used in ship-building and timber-framing back to the

1300's), but not especially relevant to furniture.

John

[J. Clarke]

Who is this "we"? This isn't rec.fine-furniture-making.

[John McCoy]

"J. Clarke" wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Ah, "we" is the participants in the wreck. Having watched it for a while now, cabinetry of one kind or another - how to do it, what tools to use, etc, etc - is the bulk of the on-topic discussion. Which isn't to say that other wood working topics aren't discussed (not to mention any number of off-topic topics). But furniture has been the core as far back as I can remember.

John

[J. Clarke]

The "core" perhaps but hardly the totality.

However it's clear that you want to be netnanny and you need to get over that because nobody likes a netnanny.

[Bill]

I think you owe everyone who read your post an apology.