"Chris Friesen" wrote in message
el...
Leon wrote:

DT joints are stronger than box joints. They will hold with out glue,
not
permanently of course. A big advantag of the DT over the bok joint is
that
on many of the better jigs you can adjust spacing and the tails and pins
to
fit the project. Bokjoints dictate that the project be designed around
the
joint length.

It's true that dovetails will hold without glue.

However, box joints can be can be cut to any finger width desired if you
have the right jig.

That is also correct, I was looking more at the aspect that they would need
to be all the same size, "any" size needed might be difficult.



Also, box joints can be made as strong as or stronger than dovetail
joints because you can easily cut narrower fingers thus providing more
glue surface. (See http://woodgears.ca/dovetail/index.html for one test
of this.)


Chris, Ill give this one. ;~) I was mostly thinking through DT joints
which are certainly stronger than a blind DT and not totally not unlike box
joints.