Tool box #4: Dovetailing the box

Nice dovetails. I use the bandsaw when cutting out tails, too.

Nice work. Dovetails are as much about aesthetics as structure in most cases, my opinion. If you like them, they are perfect ;-)

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I never made it right with pencil marking. Only when I switched to the marking knife it got better (not too much better, though).

Very nice work! Can’t wait to seeing completed project.

-- Yuri (10x4 -- yeah, that's my tiny shop!)

Excellent work Jim.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Thanks guys. I’ve tried a marking knife (not a good one mind you) and I usually end up cutting a bit of the pin or it doesn’t stay tight to the pin. I don’t do dove tails very often. The last ones I did were the big ones on the workbench last fall/winter prior to that it must be about 8 years and again they were in 2” thick teak on a new butterfly hatch for a boat of course. These little guys are small, 1/8” at the top, I had to modify some tools to get in there.
Jim

-- Jim, Long Island, NY Ancorayachtservice.com home of the chain leg vise

nice dove tails Jim.

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Those look great, Jim! I am also bad about staying in the shop at night for ‘just one more’...and whatever usually comes out sloppy, too. I bet we ALL have that problem sometimes! :)

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I know I’m not alone. Just sharing that even with thirty years experience in wood working my excitement with the project and the lack of time (which will get crunched even more as we get closer to spring) over rode my common sense. They are easily fixed and after the box is varnished almost invisible. I do avoid tricky machine cuts at the end of a long day, no exceptions.
Jim

-- Jim, Long Island, NY Ancorayachtservice.com home of the chain leg vise

Thanks, Jim. Nice work.

helluvawreck aka Charles
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Very impressive bandsawn dovetails! I’ve got a nice bandsaw Hmmm…...

-- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm

Thanks everyone.
Gfadvm…. Do some practice ones on some pine before you take on the hardwood. A sharp well tracking blade is helpful also, but the cuts aren’t long so tracking isn’t that big of an issue.
Jim

-- Jim, Long Island, NY Ancorayachtservice.com home of the chain leg vise