Woodworker's Journal 1984-8-2, страница 20

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The Beginning Woodworker

Edge-Joining Boards

Unless you spend all your time making small gift items or doll house furniture, a time will certainly come when you'll find it necessary to join two or more boards together to achieve the required width for a table top or other large flat surface. Edge-joining of boards is a basic woodworking operation that must be mastered if the novice hopes to build larger pieces.

Although the process of joining two or more boards along their edges seems simple enough, some preliminary planning and careful work is necessary in order to produce a flat slab with almost invisible joint lines. The trick is to do it so that the slab stays flat and the joints remain invisible.

There are some conflicting opinions as to the best way to edge-join boards. Most of the controversy involves the way the annual growth rings, as seen at the ends of the boards, should be arranged to minimize shrinkage and warping problems.

One traditional school of thought holds that the boards should be joined so that heartwood (old growth nearer the center of the log) and sapwood (new growth towards the outside) are alternately facing up. The logic behind this method is that any slight cupping of the individual boards will be equalized and the glued-up slab can later be planed flat with a minimum of wood removal (Fig. 1). However, this method assumes that the boards are plain or flat sawn from the log.

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