Bridle joints

So far Brian has cut grooves in all the pieces of wood for the doors, but I couldn’t see how they were all going to fit together. The answer is ‘bridle joints’, which will allow the ends to slot into one another and will make the door frame stronger. He drew a little picture to show me.

Apparently they’re not the easiest thing in the world to cut, but he said he could do half by table saw and half by hand.

The bits he could do by table saw are the male parts, which he does by adjusting the saw to the height of the cut needed and then passes the wood over it time and time again, moving it a fraction along each pass. It’s very time consuming, but faster, and more accurate, than doing it by hand.

The outcome looked pretty good.

He then had to cut all the female joints by hand, which took much longer.

He now has all the parts of the jigsaw. Can’t wait to see how it comes together.