Main > Main Forum

POLL: Which joinery option is best?

<< < (3/6) > >>

keilmillerjr:
I have very little carpentry experience. I can build very nice horse shoe pits.

I would use t-nut for a collapsible cabinet.

BobA:
For FAST durable joinery try a KREG JIG with the special screws.   They will hold a cab together without glue and if you add glue they will hold the cab tightly together while the glue dries for extra strength.  Advantage is you do not have to plan your tongue and groove conections (tab and slot) beforehand.   The boards are all flat and straight cut.  Place the Kreg Jig where you want the holes and use the special bit to drill the holes.   When you want to assemble just add the Kreg screw which do not cost much more than regular screws and will hold the cab together even without glue.

Home Depot has them in Canada and they are cheap.

Ond:
Hand carved dove tail joints are the way to go.

DaveMMR:
Not all IKEA furniture uses those RTA fittings. My Expedit bookshelf are assembled with long, heavy duty screws. It's also designed to hold very heavy loads. They're favored by vinyl record collectors, myself included, for their properly sized cubby-holes and the ability for them to hold literally hundreds of pounds of vinyl.   

My point is, if even IKEA wouldn't trust RTA fittings for furniture that's expected to pushed to the limits you should definitely not use one on a cabinet that will withstand normal vigorous abuse just by virtue of playing it.

JDFan:
Another thing to keep in mind is currently most of your current offerings are bartops so there really is no need for them to be disassembled completely once built - those fittings are fine for some applications but always tend to break out or come loose after a bit of time especially in MDF or Melamine coated particle board making the cabinets they are used in wobble. Personnally I'd just stick with the slot and tabs (unless the CNC cost is much higher in which case I'd go to the batons and screws to hold in place while glue dries.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page

Go to full version