What would the best joinery for this project be?
zippymorocco
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Hell, This is my first post! I am hoping to find some insight. I am planning on building a shelf with legs like this one http://vintageground.blogspot.com/2011/11/danish-modern-mid-century-shelving-unit.html My question is this. Can I use a joint that would hold and not rack. If so what would it be? I have experience with Loose Tenons, dowels and biscuits. Would any of these be sufficient? I paln to use 3 three boxes attached to the legs rather than any flat shelves. So there would be a lot of long grain on long grain. The boxes will be walnut plywood and the legs solid walnut.
Thank you.
J.
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Screw it!
My guess is that the boxes are screwed to the outer frames through the insides of the boxes, probably 3 -4 screws per box to leg joint. That would greatly simplfy constuction, would allow the piece to be disassembled for transit, and be plenty strong. As the piece is Danish modern, the builders would have had no issue whatsover using screws in its construction. Standard bugle-head gold construction screws would probably work the best. They have deep threads and no taper to work loose.
The joint could have been just glued, maybe with some dowels or biscuits for alignment too. Heck for Danish Modern factory-built it probably would have been a swipe of glue and some nails. I'd go with screws though, that disassembly thing can be really handy.
The leg frames are probably standard mortice and tenon.
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