This is a collection of woodworking joint plans I’ve developed for teaching my Woodworking Joinery classes. By practicing these joints and learning about their functions, woodworkers can understand them better and start to design their own solid furniture.
Tensegrity Table Plant Stand Plans
This tensegrity table uses a sliding dovetail joint to attach the support arm. The elegant design is great for holding up a small plant or art piece. The difficulty level…
Finger Jointed Paired Tenons Plans
The finger jointed paired tenon is a method of having a longer tenon in a narrow leg. The two adjacent tenons share an L-shaped mortise, by having the two mortises…
Double Mortise and Tenon Joint Plans
The double mortise and tenon is a stronger variant of the traditional mortise and tenon, due to the huge increase in glue surface by having two tenons, and the extra…
Castle Joint Plans
The castle joint is a nice-looking joint for corners on beds and tables. It combines a half lap joint with intersecting bridle joints to connect three parts in a strong…
Wedged Blind Tenon Joint (Fox Tenon) Plans
This brilliant but challenging joint is the wedged blind tenon, also known as the fox tenon because the two wedges look like ears. The blind tenon goes into a tapered…
Mitered Tenon Joint Plans
The mitered tenon allows for longer tenons in a furniture leg by allowing adjacent tenons to occupy the same L-shaped mortise. This is useful in narrow legs, because longer tenons…
Breadboard End Joint Plans
The breadboard end is a great joint for the edge of a breadboard or table top. It hides the end grain, accommodates for wood movement, and also prevents cupping of…
Beveled Shoulder Mortise and Tenon Plans
The beveled shoulder mortise and tenon joint is a stronger variant of the normal blind mortise and tenon. The full width of the beam is housed into the post, so…
Fencepost Mortise and Tenon Plans
The fencepost mortise and tenon allows two tenons to be housed in the same mortise of a fencepost. To make the joint, cut each through tenon fit into the mortise…
Plant Stand with Angled Bridle Joint Plans
This Japanese-inspired plant stand design uses two angled bridle joints and one half lap joint. I originally designed the project as a way to teach those joints to my Joinery…
Cogged Lap Joint Plans
The cogged lap joint is a stronger variant of the half lap joint. On a regular half lap joint, half of the beam is removed, unlike this joint where most…
Keyed Through Half Dovetail Joint Plans
The keyed through half dovetail is a very strong, removable joint that resembles a through mortise and tenon. The difference here is the mortise has an angled top and bottom,…
Dovetail Half Lap Joint Plans
The dovetail half lap joint is similar to a half lap joint, but the dovetail shape adds mechanical strength against being pulled apart. This is an ideal joint for holding…
Scarf Joint Template: 3″ and 3-1/8″
This is a full sized template for tracing out a scarf joint on the end of a timber. There is a template for a 3" piece and also for a…
Haunched Mortise and Tenon Joint Plans
The haunched mortise and tenon joint is a variant of the mortise and tenon joint. The haunch on the tenon gives it a wider contact surface, which adds additional strength…
Wedged Through Tenon Joint Plans
The wedged through tenon is like a through mortise and tenon, but is held in place mechanically by two wedges. The mortise is angled outward to create a captured dovetail…