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Combine “bored” with pile of small scrap wood and you get a flock of dovetail markers.
Body is walnut, fences are hard maple. The thickness of all pieces is in the neighborhood of 1/4”. At its widest, the marker is close to 1-1/2” and the pitch is 1:7, the one I use the most. The height is also about 1-1/2”. Not a lot of critical measurements here, just fiddled until it looked right.
Pretty much all hand tool work on these guys including cutting the angles and truing them on the shooting board. Easy to cut a small wedge at 1:7 pitch and use that as an auxillary fence on the shooting board to clean up edges.
Just a little oil and wax on them for finish.
Fun to make and very little time.
-- Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
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WoodSimplyMade
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#1 posted 998 days ago
Now if i could only learn to cut handcut dovetails!
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Dave
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#2 posted 998 days ago
why do you pick 1 in 7
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rwyoung
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#3 posted 998 days ago
@ superdav721 -
‘Cause I like the way it proprotions the tails and pins. In the end, it isn’t all that critical.
Heck, these might actually be 1:7.21992389457 for all I know or care. :) I just eyeballed the orignal angle onto my bevel gauge pretty quickly from some marks I made a while back on the end of my bench.
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BigTiny
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#4 posted 998 days ago
Bored again, my friend? GREAT! LOL You do some nice stuff that way.
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TopamaxSurvivor
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#5 posted 998 days ago
Nice:-) on my list to do,
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Div
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#6 posted 997 days ago
Nice and quick! I was taught 1:5 for soft woods, 1:8 for hardwoods. 1:721992389457 sounds good to me!
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rwyoung
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#7 posted 997 days ago
As an experiment, try a higher ratio in soft woods. It will hold just fine.
In the end, I just cut what looks good to me. Something around 1:7 looks right to my eye so I go with it.
Make a version with 1:5 on one edge and 1:8 on the other.
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dubsaloon
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#8 posted 878 days ago
I’ve been wanting to get some of these but now I’ll just make it. Thanks for the prompt. Nice work.
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CampD
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#9 posted 852 days ago
My 2nd favorite tool, The #9 Pentel pencil.
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