Project Information
I call this joinery radial dovetails. If your interested, I have a blog on its construction. The woods used in this box are curly maple, Caribbean rosewood, and hickory.
Instead of traditional angles, the dovetails were cut from two perspective points per each corner as you can see below.
The sides were curved to accentuate the "fan" or radial shape of the dovetails. This was a lot of fun to build and more challenging than traditional dovetails because the angle of each side of each dovetail is different than the adjacent one.
The lid handle was made with the same radial effect and mortised into the lid…
The center panel in the lid also carries the radial dovetail theme. It is "inlaid" into the frame…into a rabbet joint modified with radial dovetail shaped "mortises" that match the corners of the box.
The inside of the lid's panel pieces were also curved with multiple passes on the router table.
The finish is an oil blend first coat followed by 9 coats of satin poly/oil wipe-on. The finish fills in all the grain pores and was sanded to 1500 grit and hand rubbed out with auto body polishing (not to be confused with buffing) compound after curing for a week. It was then given two coats of paste wax.
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Instead of traditional angles, the dovetails were cut from two perspective points per each corner as you can see below.
The sides were curved to accentuate the "fan" or radial shape of the dovetails. This was a lot of fun to build and more challenging than traditional dovetails because the angle of each side of each dovetail is different than the adjacent one.
The lid handle was made with the same radial effect and mortised into the lid…
The center panel in the lid also carries the radial dovetail theme. It is "inlaid" into the frame…into a rabbet joint modified with radial dovetail shaped "mortises" that match the corners of the box.
The inside of the lid's panel pieces were also curved with multiple passes on the router table.
The finish is an oil blend first coat followed by 9 coats of satin poly/oil wipe-on. The finish fills in all the grain pores and was sanded to 1500 grit and hand rubbed out with auto body polishing (not to be confused with buffing) compound after curing for a week. It was then given two coats of paste wax.
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