Connect two wooden slats together

What you need:

• depending on the type of connection:
• saw
• Milling cutter
• Special saws
• Wooden dowels
• glue
• Miter clamp
• line
• Gag

Various possibilities of wooden lath connections

You can connect wooden slats in very different ways, which differ greatly in appearance and effect:

• Vertical lath connections, i.e. an extension of wooden laths, are usually only made when it comes to lengthening a straight edge. The connection has to hold, but not look good. Most of the time, 2 slats are simply butted together and covered with a third slat, which is screwed onto both slats.
• Wooden lath connections at right angles are common. The laths are either mitred or joined together or butted at the edges. one slat placed on another slat.
• The connection can either only be glued if only low loads are to be expected, for example in the case of a picture frame, or it can be additionally fastened by the
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  wood is penetrated. There is the option of screwing the battens, drilling dowel holes or milling slots to accommodate the wooden battens to glue the corresponding dowels, or to saw the battens opposite to each other and thus to tongue and groove connections or teeth create.
• The decision as to how the battens are connected at an angle naturally depends on how resilient the connection should be, but also on the look. Toothings in particular are very durable, but also beautiful and are often used as a decorative element.


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Tools to make the connections between the battens

• For butt joints, you definitely need a good saw that produces a straight and smooth cut. If you want to provide the wooden slats with an opposite angle cut (miter), you will need miter scissors or a miter box with a suitable saw, depending on the thickness of the slat. Of course, the more expensive special tools such as circular saws with appropriate stops also work, for example Format saws or chop saws.
• To set wooden dowels you need a drill if you want to work with round dowels or a corresponding one Flat dowel routerif you want to use lamellas.
• In order to join wooden slats with finger teeth or mortise and tenon joints, you need a format saw and should also have the corresponding prior knowledge.
• You will need a miter clamp or other professional means of holding the wooden slats in place while the glue joints dry Connection types with dowels or tenons are not, because these are usually so stable, even without glue, that further fixation when the glue sets is unnecessary.
• Joints on buttocks, including miter joints without dowels, must be fixed while drying. Instead of using a miter clamp, you can choose to make closed frames or Boxes put a cord around the workpiece and twist it with a toggle so that there is contact pressure arises.

If you need detachable connections, you will need to screw the wooden slats together.