This joint looks complicated, but it's only TWO cuts!! What would you call it??

I was scrolling through pictures of joinery on Pinterest as one does and I came across this joint from Peter Sealand and at first glance I had no idea what was going on here and it looked really intriguing to me but then I stared at it for a few minutes and I realized that if you break it down it could actually be a pretty simple joint so follow along as I try to figure it out okay so let's break it down so the first thing that I noticed about this joint was that these pieces were not squares they were actually rectangles so if you see the piece on the left the top part is wider and the edge is narrow the piece on the right is the opposite then I looked at the exposed joints to try to see where they're coming from and I noticed that each piece has two what I'm going to call exposed Tenon's and it looked like they were a half the thickness of the material and it was divided into thirds creating two exposed Tenon's on either side so I played around on Sketchup and figured out that if I start off with a piece that's a 1.5 times as wide as it is thick I could split that piece in half and then split it up again into thirds creating this joint so this works out on paper let's see if it works out in the shop I milled up this piece of eight quarter ash to an inch and 3/4 thick and according to my sketch up drawing in order for this joint to work I need to rip it into strips that are 1.5 times as wide as that so that's two and five-eighths now I have three boards here that are ready for joinery they are 1.5 times as wide as they are thick so I think the first logical step here would be to do the half lap sort of joint to do that I'm going to split the board thickness wise here into half and then going down I'm going to use the other piece as a referential measurement and I'm going to cut it the thickness wise not width wise this is a little center finding square it has two pegs you put it around your piece and you put it on an angle so it gets the center put your pencil in the hole and draw a line now I have Center marked out so that's as high as I'm going to cut now I'm going to use the other board as a referential measurement for a wear tube and that cut now I'll set the blade to that halfway mark that was in the middle of the board creating the half lap yes now we know sort of what kind of joint we could call it and I'll line up the thickness of the material up with the blade and I'll set my stop lock in position just note I'm using a flat tooth blade here which is going to leave a cleaner cut and before I cut the other pieces let me just see if I had the stop Bock in the correct position it's a little bit proud but I think that's okay so now I'm going to go and cut the same exact half lap on the other pieces [Music] alright that was easy enough just like making a hath lab so the next step I'm going to create the two outer Tenon's and I'm going to split up the board into thirds this is two and five eighths so that divided by three is seven eighths so each tenon and the gap in the middle will be seven eighths and as far as the depth I want it to go believe this way yeah okay yeah yeah because the pieces are going to meet like that okay cool so to do this I'm gonna take it over to the table saw again technically I could just clamp it onto my crosscut sled and cut it like this but my blade doesn't go high enough to make that cut so instead I'm going to use this tenoning jig that I made so I want to remove this Center over here creating the two Tenon's on the end I guess now I'm making so what seems like a bridle joint guess there's another hint to what we could call this joint I'm just going to lower the blade up until that cut line that I marked out earlier I'm going to clamp the workpiece on to my jig and I'm going to line up the blade with the inside of that cut line it looks like I need to adjust my blade height so I'm going to raise the blade just slightly and do that again now I'm just going to flip the piece over to make the same cut on the opposite side of the piece and after making these same two outer cuts on all three of the pieces now I'm just going to clean out the middle of all the pieces okay so now let's see how it all fits together so I guess it's just kind of going to be like a puzzle trying to figure this out this one oh yeah so I love how this joint seemed like it was so complicated but it was actually super simple just two cuts but we're not done yet there was one piece that was confusing me this centerpiece the sento triangle and I couldn't figure out where it was coming from and after looking at Peterson's other work there are some pieces where that little triangle isn't there like in this one so I realized that this triangle was just a square and that is glued in after the fact so I ripped up a piece that is 7/8 on both sides and then just cut it to fit into there and now I'm going to glue this all up and then I'm gonna figure out some sort of way to cut off this corner to create that cool triangle effect that he has going on there still don't know how I'm gonna do that yet but I have some time while doubleu dries it's a lot of surface area this is probably going to be a really strong joint okay now this goes like that one of them goes like that that's totally like this okay there we go and this one goes like that so our three clamps that are putting pressure on that Center block in the middle there now I'm going to add some more on to either end hope that works looks really cool from the inside set that off the drive alright it's been sitting overnight let's take it out of the clamps alright very cool I'm going to figure out how to cut that angle now so from the picture just seems like the lines are connected from the corners like that so now a triangle is marked out on here mm-hmm I think I'll just cut it with a handsaw so I just sanded it up and the joints are a little bit gassy so I'm gonna try to fill it in with some sawdust and glue I don't have any ash dust but I have white oak dust we're gonna see if that's gonna be good enough Matt and after some sanding and some finish here is the final joint I really have no idea what I would call something like this and I really don't know who created this joint where this came from Peter Ceylon was the only place where I've seen it done so maybe he came up with this I really have no idea but maybe there was a half lap involved there was Bridal joins involved but there's kind of like through Tenon's going on here and triangles I really don't know what I would call this so what would you call this joint I'm curious to know what you guys would think so I don't think that I have any projects coming up where I'm going to be using this joint this was just a fun experiment to figure out to see if I can recreate something that I've seen online and I think I did it so I hope you guys enjoyed this one and obviously if you want to do something like this you don't need power tools you can do this with hand tools just as well if that's what you like to do so thank you guys again so much for watching Happy New Year Happy Holidays and I'll see you in 2020 with some more projects this is what happens when I put the heater on

Channel: 3x3Custom - Tamar

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Id: aKJI_f44v0E

Length: 10min 30sec (630 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 27 2019