Exam 19: Making Wide Panels, Thick Blanks, and Corner Joints

A ____ joint is a positioned joint that creates a lock, which aids greatly in assembling the joint.

Alternating the growth rings of successive boards in a wide panel can reduce warping.

A well-crafted miter joint is almost imperceptible, since the change happens right at the corner.

With the ____, the direction of the spindle's rotation must be checked.

The ____ joint has rabbets cut into the opposite faces of adjoining boards.

All the lumber used for a panel should be dried to a uniform moisture content between 6 percent and ____ percent.

____ joints are constructed by joining the edge of one board to the face of another.

Corner miter joints may be reinforced to help in ____.

____ consist of a double-dovetail shaped piece, called a key, which is inset into the main pieces to help lock them together.

Wide panels are manufactured by joining two or more narrow boards together end to end.

Plainsawn lumber is not nearly as readily available as quartersawn material.

____ may be either continuous or intermittent.

In wide panels, the joint between two edges may be a simple butt joint, or it may be either reinforced or positioned.

The ____ joint has a rabbet milled on one joining member into which the other fits.

____, Catalpa speciosa, is a relatively soft hardwood with an uneven, wavy grain.

When gluing up boards, clamps should be spaced 6 to 12 inches apart, alternating on the bottom and top of the panel.

Simply butting boards edge to edge and gluing them yields a perfectly adequate joint.

The expansion and contraction of ____ lumber is over its thickness rather than across its width.

____ joints are joints such as the tongue-and-groove, ship-lap, glue, lock miter, or finger joints.

____ joints used for joining boards edge to edge for wider panels include tongue-and-groove, shiplap, glue, finger, and lock miter joints.