The magic of pocket holes is that they allow you to build stronger, lighter, and better pieces of furniture without using intricate woodworking joints that take time, skill, and specialized tools to make. I’ve used it to make everything from dining room tables to king-sized beds, and we used it extensively in our van build.

I bought a Kreg Jig pocket hole kit a few years ago when I was building a flip-top storage bench for our living room, and it’s possibly the best $40 I’ve ever spent. Because you’re driving your screws in at an angle, they’re making contact with face grain rather than end grain, and the hold is much stronger than with a typical butt joint.

Pocket hole joints are essentially butt joints, but you use a special jig to drill diagonal holes for your screws. That means that all your butt joints can’t take much abuse before they come apart.Īny time you’re using screws or nails to hold together two pieces of wood, you want to drive your fastener into face grain wherever possible. And because end grain is so porous, it does not hold very well. All the strength of the joint relies on screws driven directly into end grain. It’s simple and it works, but it’s also very weak. A butt joint is when you butt the end of one piece of wood up against another and drive nails or screws down into both pieces to hold them together. The easiest way to connect two pieces of wood is with a simple butt joint.

How to Use Pocket Holes in Your Van Build.

If kids want to collaborate, there are other user-generated worlds to explore or add to a personal account so kids can build on each other's world, and kids can share their own worlds, too. For those who want to experience their words first-hand, there's a first person mode where kids navigate as one of the characters and can chop trees and collect food. This adds some life to the worlds so kids don't have to micromanage everything. The characters have automation features that may have them working, dancing, or just roaming around. They can add all sorts of objects and creatures, including goblins, dragons, and giants to make whatever type of environment they can imagine. Kids can start with a range of worlds starting from completely empty to having a homestead. There's also a 'sandbox mode' where kids have all items unlocked (no need to save).

The characters collect more resources (wood, food, gold) to purchase more items. POCKET BUILD is a sandbox building app where kids collect resources and then use them to buy characters, buildings, trees, and other objects to decorate their worlds.

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