{"id":3336,"date":"2012-02-24T05:51:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T12:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=3336"},"modified":"2012-05-21T20:22:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T03:22:24","slug":"ode-to-a-box-joint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/ode-to-a-box-joint\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to a Box Joint"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2012\/02\/box-joint.jpg\" alt=\"Basic box joint.\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on a prototype for a product we&#8217;ll carry in the store. Nope, not ready to talk about the store concept or this particular product. Let&#8217;s just say that I needed to assemble a wooden box frame to help support the main components of the prototype.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNow, strictly speaking, I didn&#8217;t need to use a box joint. I could have used a butt joint or half-lap and it would have worked just fine. Look at the picture, it&#8217;s a pretty joint! It became a point of pride that I learn how to make box joints in some reasonable and repeatable way.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI tried the first time free hand at the table saw with a single blade. That didn&#8217;t work so well.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI tried the second time by sketching out the joint on the wood then using a hand saw and chisel to do the work. Not only did it take a long time, the joint looked horrible, though it did work.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFinally I broke down and purchased a stacked dado for my table saw and built a <a href=\"https:\/\/sawdustmaking.com\/Box%20Joint\/boxjointjig.html\" target=\"_blank\" >box joint jig<\/a>. It worked!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere is something deeply satisfying about creating something tangible; it hits both the mental and the physical aspects of innovation. I look forward to the next time I need to make a box joint now that I know how to do it.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on a prototype for a product we&#8217;ll carry in the store. Nope, not ready to talk about the store concept or this particular product. Let&#8217;s just say that I needed to assemble a wooden box frame to help support the main components of the prototype. Now, strictly speaking, I didn&#8217;t need to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11,3,1029],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3770,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions\/3770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}