The rebate joint is also known as the rabbit or check joint. Rebate joints are employed over a wide range of constructive processes. Many of them are applied to join thin pieces at an angle, as at the corner of a box. The corner may be a right angle, but this joint is also suitable for acute and obtuse angles. The pieces to be jointed should be arranged as directed in halving. The end out of which the rebate is to be taken must be lined square across the inside, at a distance from the end, as e f, Fig. 21, about 1/16 in. more than the thickness of the piece a, to be jointed into it. Lines should then be drawn down the edges from each end of the cross line e f, at right angles to the face, and a gauge line run across the end and along the edges, parallel to the face and about half-way through, but more or less may be taken out, just as the use the joint may be put to requires. To enable an exact beginning to be made by the saw, as well as to give an accurately close joint at the shoulder, a small angular groove, c, Fig. 21, should be cut out by the paring chisel, with the square used as a guide, and as described in halving. The tenon saw would then be used to cut down to the gauge lines both ways, or if the wood be straight grained, the part to be taken out may be split off with a paring chisel. When correctly finished, the joint should be quite close at all points and at the same time square. Fig. 22 shows Fig. 21 applied as the joint at the corner of a box. Fig. 25 is used for the same purpose as Fig. 22, and possesses certain advantages over it. Both are used when the joint is away from the end, as Figs. 23 and 24, Figs. 26, 27, and 28 show oblique applications of the same joints. Such joints in boxes used for holding liquids are generally coated with white lead before being put together. The dovetail, as shown at Fig. 29, may be applied here with good results instead of the process sketched in Fig. 23. A very small amount of taper on the length of the dovetail may be allowed to make sure of a tight fit. Such a joint may be used for binding others together, and will do so up to a certain limit without any fastening.