{"title":"Wood Joints","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree woodworking joints that hold without a drop of glue. No screw, no nail: they fit, and that's why they last. Half-lap, dovetail and mortise and tenon, drawn in axonometric projection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"lamina-japandi-media-madera-ensambles","title":"Half-Lap — Wood Joints I","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere's a moment, walking into your home, when you don't want anything asking anything of you. This print doesn't. It's a crossing already solved: you look at it for a second, you see that it holds, and you move on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat fits doesn't need to be glued\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe half-lap is the oldest and most straightforward joint in woodworking. Two pieces of the same section — \u003cstrong\u003e130 × 130\u003c\/strong\u003e in the drawing — each give up exactly half their thickness, \u003cstrong\u003e65 millimeters apiece\u003c\/strong\u003e, and cross. Neither gives up more than the other. Neither takes the worse end. It's a symmetrical split, and that's why the crossing sits flush: run your hand across it and you wouldn't feel where one ends and the other begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTop right, the exploded view at \u003cstrong\u003e×0.42\u003c\/strong\u003e shows the two halves apart, an instant before they drop into place. It's the only time you see them loose. And under the drawing, in small type with no emphasis at all, sits the note that holds up the whole series: \u003cem\u003eNO ADHESIVE\u003c\/em\u003e. No glue, no screw, no nail. They give up half, they cross, and that's it. That's what you'll say when somebody asks about the drawing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you get\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e12 × 16 in ($39) or 20 × 28 in ($89).\u003c\/strong\u003e The small one reads up close, in a hallway or over a work table. The large one reads from the doorway and carries a whole wall.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e28 × 40 in — $139\u003c\/strong\u003e: the large format, readable standing up from across the room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eUncoated matte paper, 80 lb (200 gsm).\u003c\/strong\u003e The whole drawing is fine line: satin paper would hand you the reflection of the bulb right on top of the dimensions. This one doesn't.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLoose print, unframed.\u003c\/strong\u003e You choose the frame, whenever and however you want. The decision is still yours the day it arrives.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePrinted on demand in the USA\u003c\/strong\u003e, one at a time. It lands in 6-8 business days.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAll three Wood Joints, $99.\u003c\/strong\u003e I sets up the crossing, II locks it, III closes it. In a row they tell one single thing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt promises nothing. It's the exact drawing of something that holds, hanging on a wall of yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"gpsr\"\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eProduct safety and care\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003ePrinted paper art print. \u003cstrong\u003eNot suitable for children under 3\u003c\/strong\u003e — sharp edges, and the packaging is a suffocation hazard.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eSold \u003cstrong\u003eunframed and without glass\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eKeep away from moisture and direct sunlight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eSold by VEXA, S.C. · Carrer Cronista Pareja 10, floor 1, door 2, 46650 Canals (Valencia), Spain · \u003ca href=\"mailto:vexaprojectcj@gmail.com\"\u003evexaprojectcj@gmail.com\u003c\/a\u003e. 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If you're one of them, this one is hard to stop looking at: the zigzag reads from across the living room, and when you step closer you find every angle written down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe joint you can't pull apart\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dovetail has been solving the same problem for centuries: keeping two pieces from separating when something pulls on them. The answer is in the slope, \u003cstrong\u003e1:6\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cstrong\u003e9.5°\u003c\/strong\u003e, dimensioned right there in the middle of the sheet. Each tail is wider at the end than at the base, so it goes in from one side and only that side. In the direction the load pushes, the tail cannot come out: its own shape won't let it. No carpenter's glue does that work. The shape already did.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the drawing tells it without a single adjective: \u003cstrong\u003e4 tails\u003c\/strong\u003e, ends relieved by 12 %, the plan of the top edge with its 70 thickness, and two crossed hatchings — one vertical, one horizontal — which is how technical drawing tells one piece from another without needing color. The only green sits on the contact edge, which is where something actually happens. Below it, the note: \u003cem\u003eNO ADHESIVE\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you get\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e12 × 16 in ($39) or 20 × 28 in ($89).\u003c\/strong\u003e The zigzag is the most recognizable shape in the collection from thirty feet away: at 20 × 28 it carries a living room wall without turning into a smudge.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e28 × 40 in — $139\u003c\/strong\u003e: the large format, readable standing up from across the room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eUncoated matte paper, 80 lb (200 gsm).\u003c\/strong\u003e No sheen, so the 9.5° keeps reading with the lamp on instead of vanishing under a reflection.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLoose print, unframed.\u003c\/strong\u003e The drawing arrives, nothing else. 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It's the quietest of the three, and the one that holds up best beside a chair you sit in every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA good joint disappears the moment it works\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMortise and tenon is among the oldest joints there is: one piece grows a tenon, the other opens the housing for it, and the tenon goes in. The print splits it in two along cut line \u003cstrong\u003eA-A\u003c\/strong\u003e. On the left, \u003cem\u003eSTATE 01 · OUT\u003c\/em\u003e: the tenon has yet to enter, and a green arrow marks its path. On the right, \u003cem\u003eSTATE 02 · IN\u003c\/em\u003e: done, and out of sight. Two moments of the same second, side by side.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure holding the whole piece up is written small, next to the housing: \u003cstrong\u003eCLEARANCE 0.0\u003c\/strong\u003e. Zero. No space to spare and none missing. There's no gap to fill, which is why there's nothing to glue: adhesive would have nowhere to go. The entire thesis of Wood Joints fits in those three characters, and it's what you'll point at when somebody asks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you get\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e12 × 16 in ($39) or 20 × 28 in ($89).\u003c\/strong\u003e It's the quietest of the trio: at 12 × 16 it works in a narrow gap, at 20 × 28 it fills a wall without filling it with noise.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e28 × 40 in — $139\u003c\/strong\u003e: the large format, for the wall you look at from the sofa.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eUncoated matte paper, 80 lb (200 gsm).\u003c\/strong\u003e Plenty of air around the drawing and not a reflection on top: the 45° section hatching reads grain by grain.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLoose print, unframed.\u003c\/strong\u003e Just the paper, well protected. The rest is up to you.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePrinted on demand in the USA\u003c\/strong\u003e, one at a time. In 6-8 business days it's on your wall, not in a box in a warehouse.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAll three Wood Joints, $99.\u003c\/strong\u003e Half-lap sets up the fit, the dovetail locks it, the tenon finishes it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt hangs on its own and keeps quiet. 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Hung together, it's hard not to think about something beyond wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat do three woodworking joints have to say?\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHalf-lap: each piece gives up exactly half its thickness, and the crossing sits flush. Dovetail: the slope is 1:6, and in the direction you pull, it does not come out. Mortise and tenon: it goes into its housing, disappears from view, and nothing else is needed. They're drawn in ISO axonometric at 30°\/150°, with exploded views and real dimensions — 130 × 130 section, half-thickness rebate — like a workshop manual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three in a row span about \u003cstrong\u003e42 in\u003c\/strong\u003e. They work where people build things with their hands, and they work where they don't: a workshop, an office, a hallway. 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And they arrive together, in the same shipment, so the wall gets settled in one go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe three prints in the series\u003c\/strong\u003e — Half-lap, Dovetail and Mortise and Tenon — at 12 × 16 in.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eUncoated matte paper, 80 lb (200 gsm).\u003c\/strong\u003e The grain hatching reads line by line, with no reflections on top.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOne shipment for all three.\u003c\/strong\u003e They arrive together and go up in one go.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePrinted on demand in the USA\u003c\/strong\u003e, one at a time. 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