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Tips and Tricks for Dovetails Now I’ve always been a fair dovetailer. I cut my first set by hand ye
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Now IÂ’ve always been a fair dovetailer. I cut my first set by hand years ago and made decent joints. But I was slow. One day the memory of that swim meet returned, and I decided to try the same approach with my dovetailing. I vowed to cut a dovetail every day for a month.
That night I prepped a few boards of cherry and poplar. I laid out my tools on the bench and cut my first set – three tails into three pins. It took more than an hour. I then cut the joint free of the two boards, marked the date on the corner and put the joint on the windowsill. I left all my tools out on the bench, set and ready for day two.
The next day, before I cut the second set, I picked up the joint from the night before. Under scrutiny, it wasnÂ’t as nice as IÂ’d remembered. My saw had crossed the baseline here. I had split one pin slightly there. I cut my next set and tried to avoid crossing the jointÂ’s baseline. I tried to ensure the pins on the ends were cut straight. And I made the half pins on the ends a bit wider. I cut that joint free, dated it and sat it on the sill.
After a few more nights I realized that I was just repeating my blunders. Split pins were plaguing me. So I sawed even closer to my knife lines on the end pins. The next day, no splits. After two weeks, my dovetails looked tighter. Then I changed their spacing. Then I started to pick up speed and arrange my tools so I wasnÂ’t fumbling for the chisel.
After 30 days, I was 10 times the dovetailer I was when I began. The operation felt natural.
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