51.   The joint should be a nice tight fit with a smooth bottom if you did the layout correctly.

52.   The joints are all closed, bulldozed or in ruins now, but Vinton still has a slight flavor of bordertown raffishness.

53.   The gym, which sits cheek-to-jowl with classrooms at Drake High School, his alma mater, is what a weightlifting joint should be.

54.   The joint was alive and lively beyond anything in the past.

55.   The joint was jammed.

56.   The joints are deep and somewhat crude, but that wall is going nowhere for several hundred years.

57.   The major joint is the through-and-pegged mortise and tenon that holds the main crosspiece to the base pieces.

58.   The old shot-and-beer joints are gone.

59.   The most popular profile is the concave joint, although V joints and flush and weathered joints are also common.

60.   The open joints will not be enough, generally, to allow bugs to come in.