Timber joints style - your opinion

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Here are a few examples showing longer sections of wood. Notice the pattern doesn’t repeat along the length at all.

And as I said before, most viewers won’t care about this because they know your drawings are just that.

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I would like to see the drawings with ‘Profiles’ on. Might make them pop a bit.

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Hi, know working on my carpetry joints in my newest Blogpost:

How do you like this style? I am not shure whitch line-style i should use. Should it be darker and thiker?

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I think the edges of the timbers look fine. The dashed lines are a bit heavy and the ones for the wedge make it difficult to see. I would only connect the nearest corners of the parts so the dashed lines don’t run along the edges of the parts themselves.

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Hi Dave. Thank you very much!

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https://skfb.ly/ySnS

I’ve done quite a bit of pull apart details. Here is one on SketchFab.

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Here in the US we tend to refer to all these as scarf joints.

https://www.google.com/search?q=scarf+joint

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So what is the correct expression? Scarf joint or timber joint?

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Typically joining timbers end to end is called a scarf joint. Then there are specific names for the type of scarf joint.

‘timber joint’ is generic, and I would take that to mean any heavy timber to timber connection, from mortise and tenon, various housings, birds mouth (rafter to plate etc.), scarf joint, etc.

A great illustrated work for historical US joinery is:

https://www.ncptt.nps.gov/wp-content/uploads/2004-08.pdf

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A great resource is the http://www.tfguild.org

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These are really nice Dave! Especially that work bench. Wow.

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Thanks Mike. the workbench was featured in Fine Woodworking’s Tools and Shops issue a year and a half ago. I drew the model to create the plans they sell for it.

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Hi,

thank you for your suggestion. How do you make this profiles?

or is there any other possibility/style to draw “Woodendings”?

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Is that to show the timber continues? What we could call a “break line” in a 2D drawing?

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Hi Dave,

yes to show that the timber continues. :slight_smile:

break line is fine. Sorry for my bad English…

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No worries about your English. You do better than some Americans I know. :wink:

Since the joinery you show in your illustration tend to have angled faces, I would be inclined to show the break using curves instead of flat faces and sharp corners.

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Hi Dave,

ok thank you very much. Do you have an example how that might look? :slight_smile:

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I’ll draw one for you but it’ll have to be later. Gotta get ready for work.

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Ok thank you very much!

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Maybe something like this. I didn’t take a lot of time to draw it. You could add a little more variation to it although I would try to keep it reasonably simple.

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