What's this joint called?

[BikerRay]

Can anyone please tell me what this drawer joint is called? And maybe give a guess as to how old it might be? Pictures are at

[Lee Michaels]

I have seen the joint and a jig to make that joint. The name escapes me though. I really liked the joint and was going to buy the jig. But something came up and it did not happen.

[dpb]

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Oh, gosh, you would ask! :) FWW had a Letter to Editor asking same thing a while (probably 2+ yr???) but I forget what they actually called it. Whether it would be searchable and findable on the FWW web site I've no idea.

It is roughly 20's vintage or a little earlier iirc.

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[Robatoy]

It's a 'pinned Bead Joint' . . . . okay..so I made it up..shoot me already...

[Goose]

Can't tell you the name, But I have an Antique Dresser from the 1850's that uses the same joint for the drawers.

Mike

[nailshooter41]

Wow... can you imagine making a chest of drawers with those joints with a few homemade saws and some smith/homemade chisels circa 1850s?

Ouch.

Robert

[Pat Barber]

It's called a "pin and crescent joint".

You can make them with > Can anyone please tell me what this drawer joint is called? And maybe

[Scott Lurndal]

AKA Knapp joint.

[Chris Friesen]

Actually I think it was designed as a machine-made joint. You could do the front with a quasi-forstner style bit (with a hole in the middle) in a line-boring sort of machine. The side would probably be some sort of molding head.

Chris

[Chris Friesen]

Here's the history, courtesy of Google:

[BikerRay]

Thanks, all, for the quick response.

[MikeWhy]

Do molding planes cut end grain? That sounds excessively punitive.

[marc rosen]

Has anybody on this group tried this jig? How easy is it to get it right? Marc

[nailshooter41]

Thanks -

Robert