dovetail secret revealed

Very similar the one of the mallets I made some time ago. Wish my dovetails turned out as nice as yours!

Lew

Well, this is interesting! Its cool too. But it seems like it becomes more of a mortise and tenon then a dovetail joint simply because it can slide backwards and out, whereas a true dovetail joint has to be lifted out. It looks like a great joint that confuses the eye, but I’d think you have to have it pretty tight and glued well for it to be a staple long lasting joint. In that case would you use alternate ways of fastening such as a dowel through the bottom to keep it from sliding back?

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Nicely done. Good-looking tools, right down to the scalpel. I can see you took great care to layout and execute this.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

that picture is worth paragraphs of explanation!, even after it was correctly guessed. Now I feel like I have a shot at it – versus wondering how to fill in the imagined empty space that the slope on the tail fills in.

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