What is a rabbet edge?
What is a rabbet edge?
A rabbet (American English) or rebate (British English) is a recess or groove cut into the edge of a piece of machinable material, usually wood. A rabbet can be used to form a joint with another piece of wood (often containing a dado).
What does a rabbet cut look like?
One of the first joinery cuts that new woodworkers try is the rabbet. A rabbet is simply an open-sided channel or recess along the edge or across the end of a board or panel. The depth of the rabbet for this joint should be one-half to two-thirds its width.
What is a shiplap joint?
Ian Kirby: A shiplap joint is used for wooden sheathing where the boards are rabbeted so the edges of the adjacent board overlap to make a flush joint. You may find it is used incorrectly on houses where the planks have overlapping clapboards.
What is a double rabbet?
The double rabbet joint has a rabbet cut in both mating pieces. This joint is stronger than the basic rabbet for a couple of reasons. Double rabbets help keep the joint from racking out of square and provide more gluing area for a more rigid joint.
Can you rabbet plywood?
Rabbeting is a great way of adding strength to many projects, especially projects where there are shelves which need to be supported. Rather than using hardware to hold the weight of the shelf and whatever is on it, rabbet joints allow the wood itself to carry the weight.
How is rabbet joint made?
The joint is made by first cutting the rabbets in the two mating pieces and then mitering the corners at a 45 degree angle. The thickness of the mating pieces is generally the same.
What is a tongue joint?
Tongue and groove joints allow two flat pieces to be joined strongly together to make a single flat surface. Each piece has a slot (the groove) cut all along one edge, and a thin, deep ridge (the tongue) on the opposite edge. The tongue projects a little less than the depth of the groove.
Is shiplap and tongue and groove the same thing?
In a nutshell, shiplap boards rest on top of each other and overlap, while tongue-and-groove planks join together and interlock. Another popular technique is to just do a simple “planked wall”. That’s just slightly-spaced apart strips of plywood, nailed to a surface.
