Wood Joints:
- Butt
- weak
- plane-on-plane
- Tongue and Groove
- Strong
- Section of one piece (tongue) inserted into indent of another (groove)
- Miter
- Slightly stronger
- Slanted planes give it slightly more strength
- Rabbet (Not rabbit)
- Slightly stronger
- somewhat like tongue and groove, but one side of tongue is exposed
- Dovetail
- Strong
- similar to tongue and groove, but edges are slanted out for better hold
- Mortise and Tenon
- One of the strongest
- Insert of one block inset into another and surrounded on all four sides
- Dowel
- Also very strong
- Similar to Mortise and Tenon, but instead of a square insert, the inserts are round
- often more than one dowel
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