Woodworker's Journal 2009-33-2, страница 22

Four Versatile Rabbet Joints

1. Overlap Rabbet

One big rabbet serves many project applications in this overlapping joint.

Whether you're building boxes,

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them all on a table saw.

Raise the blade so It will cut the shoulder in one pass. Make this cut against the rip fence, backing up the workpiece with your miter gauge outfitted with a scrap fence.

drawers or casework, these four sturdy and self-aligning rabbet joints

Instead of measuring, you can dial in the rabbet's shoulder cut using the thickness of the mating part to set the distance from the rip fence to the outside face of the blade. Lock the fence.

Ail overlap rabbet joint consists of one rabbet with a tongue that's long enough to cover the thickness of the mating part. It's a good choice for assembling drawers when economy is more important than brute strength or high style. Overlap rabbets are I he preferred way to conceal back panels in cabinetry, and I hey offer more surface area for glue than butt joints when building boxes or carcasses of all sorts. You can cut the rabbel in two passes with a standard blade, as shown here, or tackle it in a single swipe wilh a dado head. Be sure to reinforce this cross-grain glue joint with dowels or fasteners driven through the rabbet tongue.

A second cut, with the workpiece on-end, forms the rabbet's cheek and completes the tongue. Here, a shop-made tenoning jig clamps and steadies the workpiece during cutting.

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