Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Small Display Case
Northwest29
I want to build a small display case for something like a football or helmet. All edges will be wood with glass for the open area. I can't seem to find information on how the corner joint where 3 end pieces come together at a corner. Would someone please tell the name of the joint and where I can find information for making it. Thanks in advance for your help.
Many.....many...
Brian Roberts
MANY came up when I Googled "three way mitered joint".
Re: Many.....many...
Northwest29
Thanks - I guess I wasn't using a good enough search criteria. )-:
Re: Small Display Case
Gary Smyth
Not a three way miter, but an alternative. More fragile. Pictured is a display stand post. It is 1" square cherry with a 1/8" kerf for the glass. The miter on the inside is 45 degrees to increase the sight lines. The post is just that and is anchored through a base by a smallish #4 long screw centered through the large area at the point and through the base. Sort of like a tent pole. It is a butt joint aligning the posts glass kerfs with other kerfs in the base and glass kerfs in the mitered wood top that also has a dado holding 1/8" glass set in as the top. The whole is carried/handled by the base and accessed by the recessed glass at the top. Sorry for the old pictures. There is no pressure on the post that a screw holding the post cannot handle given the glass kerfs in the base and top, but it is only for static display. With all of the components in place it has lasted twenty years. An identical post set up has worked in a tall mast pond yacht display case,(26l x 9w x 38h) but plexiglass was used there as tempered glass was too heavy.
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