Rabbet And Dado Joints

Small plow plane is a little gem

Despite the simplicity of the joint, it's not as cut and dried as it seems. How you cut it should depend on how you'll use it.

When rabbeting a shelf to fit into a dado, is it better to put the rabbet on the top or the bottom?

Bob Rozaieski offers a guide to choosing a vintage dado plane, tuning up metal and wood-bodied planes, and using them to produce clean dadoes.

Built with rabbets and dadoes, this cabinet incorporates plenty of smart building solutions that you can use in your own designs.

Graduated shelves and graceful symmetry hang on a single stud.

Bob Van Dyke demonstrates how to properly use a shoulder plane: checking for square, honing the blade, inserting and adjusting the blade, and using the plane to adjust tenons, clean up rabbets, and refine moldings, among other tasks.

Contributing editor Christian Becksvoort builds a wall shelf that gives a nod to the Shakers while embracing a modern style.

Will Neptune shows how to add dovetails to keep dividers square when the case has inset drawers with cock beading

Will Neptune pairs dadoes with dovetails in three joinery options for attaching horizontal dividers to a case.