What would this joint be called?

I’d go with mitered, fingered, pegged (MFP?) It’s a nice looking joint. Takes a few seconds of staring at it to make sense of it. Nice work on the prototype.

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I’d call it exactly that. A mitered and pegged finger joint.

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depending on how many you do you might call it a headache lol looks cool though great work

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Took me a few seconds, too. Joint, mitered, finger-jointed, pegged. 8^D

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i would probably still just call it a miter joint…..with a peg in it – haha. I dont think the peg will actually add anything to the joint, strength wise…..just decorative. maybe I’m wrong. cool looking joint though! good job

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in all my years never seen anything like it. but it be cool . hows this for a name A PEGGED FINGERED MITER

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Combination Joint.

At least people and their quick joinery jigs can’t make this.

Here’s a couple more shots for clarification of how it goes together. I’m with ya, dakremer, that the peg is more or less just a decorative element – considering all of the long grain-to-long grain glue surface there already is in the joint.

Its a version of a mitered lap joint. You just have additional laps(ie. fingers). And yes, the peg does add strength. But its way overkill. I like the way you chamfered the thing after assembly.

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It’s more like a double bridle joint thats mitered. Good design though, I bet its strong as heck too.

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A version of the Mitered LAP joint. The peg does add strength, although the extra fingers will actually weaken the joint.

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too much trouble

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Looks kind of like bridle joint on steroide with a miter thrown in for decorative effect and then pegged. I does look really cool. I don’t know if you put the peg in for decoration or if you thought it would be good for strength, but it would do both, although, I seriously doubt that joint would ever break if properly glued. The wood would break long before the glue joint. I agree with Cabs4less, if you had to make a lot of them, that could get old in a hurry, but that would be a very attractive treatment on the corner of a table or possibly a mitered frame for a cabinet door. Nice work.

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