Is there ay tried and tested fast way to join two bits of wood, with out a joiner?
Thanks
Eddy
Joining wood
Feb 02, 2005
28 Replies
That's a broad open-ended question. Maybe you are a candidate for quick and dirty pocket-hole joinery.
Bob
That's a broad open-ended question. Maybe you are a candidate for quick and dirty pocket-hole joinery.
Bob
Aye, there is a "tried and tested fast way" - hire a woodworker.
OTOH, what kind of wood and how do you want to join them? End to end, end to face, end to edge, edge to edge, edge to face, face to face, sixty nine?
bluemax responds:
Or even a couple 16d nails.
Charlie Self "They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program." George W. Bush, St. Charles, Missouri, November 2,
2000Straighten the edges with a jointer plane. Takes some technique, but that's the way they did it in the old days.
Start with a table saw to make sure both edges are as straight as possible. Then clamp both boards together and plane both edges at the same time. But they have to be STRAIGHT.
Of course that presents another set of criteria.
- Galvanized?
- Common or Box?
- Finish or Sinker head?
SH
Slowhand asks:
Or scaffold.
Charlie Self "They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program." George W. Bush, St. Charles, Missouri, November 2,
2000
smooth or ring shank?
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:06:02 -0800, "Slowhand"
Swingman asks:
Ah, well scaffold nails are meant to be pulled, so I'd like smooth shanks.
Charlie Self "They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program." George W. Bush, St. Charles, Missouri, November 2,
2000
Thanks Geoff!
And to the rest if you lot!, sorry I asked!.
Eddy
Picky, ain't 'cha? Tom
6" pole barn spikes driven with a 27oz hammer hold very well. --dave
I'd never heard of a scaffold nail. Here in O-ree-gone we call them duplex nails. Or the slang "dupes". SH
Slowhand responds:
Ah, well. The news had to get there sooner or later. First time I heard them called scaffold nails was some time around '56, while--oddly enough--getting ready to build a scaffold. My boss sent me off to get some, with me thinking it was a new version of a left-handed monkey wrench search. It wasn't.
Charlie Self "I think we agree, the past is over." George W. Bush
And left-handed monkey wrenches actually *do* exist, too.
I've got one in my toolbox.
left-hand thread on the adjustable jaw.
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