I usually make dust frames for cabinet drawers with "half lap" joints and,
now that I think about it, I am wondering why I don't use pocket hole screws
for that task also ... creature of habit, I guess.

Although I've tried it a time or two, I personally have a much easier time
getting M&T joints and/or pocket hole joints for face frames square without
gaps than I do "half lap" joints. But like the above, it is more or less
what you are familiar with and what works for you.

Actually, the joints above are what my grandfather, and an old cabinetmaker
I worked for in England for a short time, called a "halving joint", they
both used what we refer to today as a "half-lap" joint only on end grain.

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"Scott Cramer" wrote in message
On 23 Oct 2003, Swingman spake unto rec.woodworking:

Hands down: KREG. I've used it to make close to a hundred face frames
for cabinets just this past year. Most alignment problems can be
sidestepped by doing your assembly on a flat surface, what's left can
be fixed with a cabinet scraper in a few minutes.

Fast, no waiting on glue to dry, and strong. I've got a couple of
sample joints that I didn't ever bother to glue that I invite skeptics
to try and tear apart by hand.



Am I the only one here who makes face frames with half-lap
joints? I don't remember why I do it that way, I think it might have been
an article in a Fine Woodworking from the '80s. At any rate, the half
laps
are self-aligning and give lots of surface area for solid gluing. Is this
an unusual method?