What type of joint is this?

[ivwshane]

I'm thinking about making something like this:
http://www.restorationhardware.com/r...009&navCount=6

It looks incredibly simply and it appears that the joints are simple butt joints.

If they are butt joints I can't imagine it being that sturdy. What other techiniques might they have used to make the piece more solid?

[jarhead]

My guess would be rabbet and daddo joints.

[LarryG]

Could be lots of things.

There's no way to know, with certainty; you cannot tell just by looking at a photo. There might be biscuits, or splines, or dowels, or non-through dados. Or, even though the construction is described as "heavy solid pine," the visible edges might still be applied moldings that are concealing conventional dados.

It would, however, be fairly simple to build. As furniture-building projects go, using any of the above joinery, this would be an easy one.

[sacherjj]

I would think that too. The top and bottom overhang a little, so a stopped dado and rabbet make sense. Or it could just be biscuitted.

[Russianwolf]

depending on what the back is made of and how it's attached, it COULD just be butt joints.

I wouldn't want to sit on it if it doesn't have a back as it would be too easy to rack it and make it collapse no matter what type joint was used.

[greencat]

There was another post about a month ago for something very similar. I think it was pottery barn bench. You may want to see that posts for tips.

I think the best tip is to find your baskets first and adjust the dimensions from there.

I would agree that this would be fairly simple and less than 1 sheet of plywood.

[Ken Massingale]

I would say mortise and tenon, perhaps loose tenons.
ken

[Tom Miller]

The thing to do is to learn your woodworking joints, and then when you see something like that, you decide for yourself what joints you'd like to use.

I recently got a couple books on cabinet/furniture construction that do a really good job of showing the joints used for all sorts of "typical" furniture construction. One is by Bill Hylton, and the other is by Andy Rae. The first is out of print, so good luck with that, but the second is available.

Regards,
Tom

[scorrpio]

Could be butt joints that are either screwed, bisquited or doweled.
Vertical pieces could be sitting in stopped dadoes (or more like long mortises). in which case a back wall set into rabbets on top/bottom and dadoed/rabbeted to accept the vertical pieces, would make this real sturdy. It also could be sliding dovetails - which would give the piece high strength even without a back wall.