Cross Halving Joint

Cross-halving jointOlly Starling Collect 2 pieces of wood, leisurely would be the best, some(prenominal) of equal sizes. Divide each piece of wood into 3 veracious segments using an accurate ruler, use a pencil to draw the tactile sensation side and face edge. Next use a tri-square to mark the half way mark on the side edge of both pieces of the soft wood. Use a Stanley knife to make a deep gash on the twain pencil marks on the face sides of the two pieces of wood making sure to use a ruler to ingest the knife we do this so that the dictum slips later are truly accurate.Youll know if this is right if you place one of the pieces on top of the opposite making sure you butt only just see the lines from the width of the wood. Now use a gauge to accurately mark the pencil lines made on the face edge making they are megascopic from the eye. Then using the grooves made by the Stanley knife foregoing cut down the pencil line of face edge with a Tenon saw, saw down till you g et to the gauge line you made earlier on face edge.Then collect a bevelled edged cozen and manually work through the wood peeling of and mm a cartridge clip remember to only go half way so you can spin the wood round and get an accurate cut go steady about a mm before the gauge line so we can accurately use a Grannys Tooth or router as its commonly known to gently peel off the utmost mm. Now the two pieces should slot into each other and youre done, it should look something like this. Tools used. Tenon saw Grannys tooth Stanley knife Bevelled edge chisel Guage