513 days ago
by Woodhacker |
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After admiring the double and double-double dovetail joints that are capable with the Incra and other jigs, I started thinking, “Why not try this by hand?” So this box is my first experiment with handcut double dovetails. It took me some time to figure out the joinery process, but once I realized a few things about this type of joint, it seemed do-able. It was quite challenging but also a ton of fun. It also does take some degree of patience and precision…which I’m still working on.
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489 days ago
by Woodhacker |
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I’ll call this a radial dovetail (for lack of better name). This is a practice handcut joint for a future keepsake box. It’s curly maple and Caribbean rosewood.
My initial thought was to have all the sides of the dovetails in the maple point to one common perspective. However, during layout I quickly found out some of the angles would be far too severe, putting the integrity of the joinery at risk. Thus I used two perspective points for this joint.
Note there are four tails in the...
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595 days ago
by Hibernicvs |
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Or, just how badly can I screw up my first blog entry? This isn’t like a mistake in woodworking that you can change to something else (“Let me show you my collection of hand-carved mahogany toothpicks”) or use for firewood. No, this is out there for the entire world (or, at least that portion of it that counts … i.e., woodworkers) to see. At least it should be good for a few laughs.
This is a “dry run” to see if I can make the entry properly for the bookcase comp...
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