5 BEST Widening Joints tested to destruction! How to joint timber boards across the width make panel

This video shows you how to join boards together in many ways, the boards are then tested to destruction! Lots of fun this one!

Test wood for strength.

How to widen boards for the beginner - These joints are used all the time in woodworking! If you are going to make a scaffold board table or going to oak panel your whole house these joints are needed. Watch this video to the end to find out which joint is the strongest and which joint I recommend!

[BudNesbit]

Very instructive video (and entertaining). Thank you.

[whycantithinkofagood]

Hi. Great video, if a bit tedious for you! My reading of your results is that the butt joint, if well made. is excellent and that if you need to use something to line up your boards *small* dowels are probably the answer. It seems to me that in most cases the boards are able to bend and the load gets distributed fairly evenly across the boards, but that the stiffness provided by the dowels prevents the centre section from bending as much and concentrates the stress at the end of the dowels. If so, smaller dowels would bend easier and produce a smaller stress concentration effect. Perhaps if th dowels were made of softer wood (pine?) they would be better? Once again - great video, thanks.

[richyjay]

Interesting results! Nice test rig - glad you didn't drop any weights on your toes (at least not on camera) 😁