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
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What's this joint called?
Oct 21, 2008
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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.
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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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It's a 'pinned Bead Joint' . . . . okay..so I made it up..shoot me already...
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
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
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
AKA Knapp joint.
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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
Here's the history, courtesy of Google:
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Thanks, all, for the quick response.
Do molding planes cut end grain? That sounds excessively punitive.
Has anybody on this group tried this jig? How easy is it to get it right? Marc
Thanks -
Robert
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