| Joinery | General term for joining pieces of wood together to create durable furniture. Joint like “box” or “dovetail” can be held together through interlocking wood cuts. Intricate joinery indicated the piece is made of solid wood. | |
| | Butt Joint | A technique in which two pieces of material are joined by simply placing their ends together without any special shaping. A reinforced butt joint improves the structural integrity of a plain butt joint by using nails, dowels, biscuit, screws, or cam fasteners. |
| | Dovetail Joint | A joint technique most commonly used for woodworking joinery. Most commonly used to join the sides of a drawer to the front |
| | Rabbet | A rabbet is an open sided channel or recess along the edge or across the end of a board or panel. It provides more of a mechanical connection than does a butt joint
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| | Dado | is one of the strongest woodworking joints you can make. It is made from a 3-sided channel cut across the grain of one work piece. |
