re: Lock Your Dovetails and Box Joints

a1Jim – RIGHT! That is exactly the comparison I have made to others.

There is a lot of furniture out there where the tenons have held up just fine. There is some that is loose, but still holding, and some that have separated.

It is pretty much the same story for dovetails and box joints. Of course, the box joints are far more likely to pull apart than the dovetails because they do not lock together like the dovetails. But the point is that I have seen these joints in the various conditions just like tenons. Not all come apart, but some do.

The pin is just one way that, I think, pretty much guarantees that they won’t come apart. It is highly unlikely the pin will come out.

The beginning was a bit dramatic of course, it was a hook;)