Y-Joint

I looked through my book on joinery, and did not see this. I'm sure it exists. I bet they even call it a y-joint, because the pieces look like 'y's. I am not going to Google that. And I am sorry if you are some stranger who googled y-joint. I would never submit something like this to a woodworking forum.

I have been trying to solve this problem for quite some time. I couldn't have told you what the problem was, really. But I have been trying to solve it. That is pretty much the story.

When trying to glue miters or butts together, and clamping and all that... it just doesn't work that well. I have no standards by what it means to "work well".

And dovetails would lock, but they are hard to make.

With this "y-joint" all the pieces should kind of lock, you don't have to worry about angles (other than 90), it should almost self clamp, all the pieces are the same shape... and it looks pretty good too I think (not in this drawing which exaggerates).