My First and Second Set of Hand Cut Dovetails
A while back I posted a review of Major League Woodworking’s Home Run 4-Pak. Anyway, my current shop project is a four drawer storage cabinet that sits below my Table Saw. Building this gave me the opportunity to use dovetail joinery for the drawers and putting the 4 Pak to work. After watching Tom McDonalds videos on how to cut DT’s I started hacking away. Below you will see a picture ofmy first attempt at hand cutting DTs. I used the 4-Pack marking gauge to layout the base lines for all the pins and tials, and the paring block to lay out the pins. Then I used a Marples Japanese Pull saw to cut the pins on both drawers. Like Tommy says…. practice pract...
