Methods to Trim Proud Dovetails

depends on how proud they sit.

Table saw, band saw, belt sander, ROS, block plane, firmer chisel, old block of wood with a piece of sand paper glued to it, router, router plane….. the list goes on and on.

My favorite way is to use a roundtuit.

-- Improvise.... Adapt...... Overcome!

Dallas, that was great! Roundtuit… I might have to make me one of those :-D

-- Mos - Twin Cities, MN -- Stanley #45 Evangelist - www.youtube.com/MosquitoMods

Not a roundtuit. It is a blockplanetuit. I have one. You can buy mine for $5,060.37 shipped.
( I’m just so danged funny. I’ll go have another beer.)
Bill

-- bill@magraphics.us

Mike, I like using a block plane. Sander works ok too. Router may give you some tear out.

-- Tim-- http://www.tmuli.com

I have had the best results with a #4 stanley.I have had issues when using chisels,probably lack of control on my part or in a hurry.A super sharp chisel can dig if your not careful.

-- They just don't get my chub on.-Bertha on modern handplanes

A sharp chisel with a sideways slicing cut or a sharp plane.

Sanders are likely to round over a edge and a router would just be asking for trouble

i like to use the ball peen hammer trick to close any gaps, then trim flush with low angle block plane.

Bent, never heard of the ball peen hammer trick for wood dovetails. Can you elaborate? Sounds interesting.

-- Mike

Mine are just alittle proud so i sand. I did try a scraper but got tear out.

paratrooper34 – you hit the endgrain of the pins close to the gaps. the rounded hammer head causes the wood to compress and spread out a little bit, thus filling in the gap. it works if the pins are proud and you trim them up afterwards, if they’re already flush, you’ll create a divot.

I usually leave the long grain proud and trim it flush with
a plane. End grain is tricky to trim, but if I were routing
a lot of dovetails and leaving end grain proud I would belt
sand or disc sand them. It’s a matter of what standard
of craftsmanship you are working to.