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assemblage à mi-bois

English translation: half-joint

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French term or phrase:assemblage à mi-bois
English translation:half-joint
Entered by: looby

12:44 Apr 5, 2009
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Materials (Plastics, Ceramics, etc.) / mi-bois
French term or phrase: assemblage à mi-bois
In a brochure for assembling garden screens made of wooden slats.
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looby
France
Local time: 09:31
half-joint
Explanation:
Take two pieces of wood of the same dimensions. On each, cut two slots as far apart as the pieces of wood are wide through to half the thickness, then chisel out the wood between the slots. Smear the "holes" with glue, turn one piece of wood up the other way and turn it 90°, then join the two pieces together so that the "holes" mate. You have made an < i>assemblage à mi-bois. This forms a cross, but the same can be done anywhere, at corners, with square cuts or mitres, to make tees, with the "leg" of the tee extending to the far side or only partially through the other part, etc.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2009-04-05 14:55:09 GMT)
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http://woodworking.about.com/od/joinery/p/halfLapJoints.htm
http://www.diydata.com/techniques/timber_joints/frame_joints...
[both illustrated]
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4ocerlapping assembly
margaret caulfield
4half-joint
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ocerlapping assembly


Explanation:
Taken from Hachette.

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Note added at 10 mins (2009-04-05 12:54:38 GMT)
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SORRY!!!! I meant "overlapping" and not "ocerlapping".

margaret caulfield
Local time: 09:31
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half-joint


Explanation:
Take two pieces of wood of the same dimensions. On each, cut two slots as far apart as the pieces of wood are wide through to half the thickness, then chisel out the wood between the slots. Smear the "holes" with glue, turn one piece of wood up the other way and turn it 90°, then join the two pieces together so that the "holes" mate. You have made an < i>assemblage à mi-bois. This forms a cross, but the same can be done anywhere, at corners, with square cuts or mitres, to make tees, with the "leg" of the tee extending to the far side or only partially through the other part, etc.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2009-04-05 14:55:09 GMT)
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http://woodworking.about.com/od/joinery/p/halfLapJoints.htm
http://www.diydata.com/techniques/timber_joints/frame_joints...
[both illustrated]


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