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pine panels with minor cupping suitable for dovetails?
My rule is to use it if it can be flattened with no more than moderate hand pressure. Dovetails in particular are forgiving, because the joinery forces pieces into contact along the entire joint line. ...
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Simple Dovetail jig
The normal versions of this tool are simply marking aids (see page 34 of Charles Hawyard's How to Make Woodwork Tools here on Toolemera for the classic example of this type). They've always been user-...
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How does Frank Klausz achieve a >90 turn with a turning saw without cleanup when cutting dovetails?
A few points:
1) You can make a frame saw yourself from scratch or from a kit (https://www.toolsforworkingwood.com/store/item/GT-BOWS.XX/Gramercy_Tools_Bow_Saw_Kits_and_Parts), buy one on ebay, etc.
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Dovetails with undermount drawer slides
You haven't significantly compromised strength by removing the last pin and the back of a drawer actually doesn't need to be that strong1 so I don't think it's a big concern.
But obviously it is best ...
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How to hide base dados behind box joint corners
How can I avoid this?
Use a router to cut stopped dados instead. If you're limited to using a table saw, and that saw doesn't happen to have a router table built into it, it's pretty much unavoidable....
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How to get better at fitting joints and "seeing" bruises?
When fitting a joint it's clearly necessary to remove a little wood where the joint doesn't fit yet. But, best not to remove wood that doesn't need to be removed since (e.g.) this can make the joint ...
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How to get better at fitting joints and "seeing" bruises?
for all things like this, it helps to have the right kind of lighting. A low raking light is useful for highlighting subtle differences in wood surfaces - like this burnishing or in preparing a ...
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Styling dovetail box - tails or pins on front side
If it's just an aesthetic decision, it comes down to what you think looks better. For my money, pins are more visually interesting than tails, so I'd face the pins forward (meaning tails are cut into ...
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How thin can a large dovetail tail be?
That joint looks strong enough to me.
The bigger problem, though, is that you will have wood movement issues. The top will get bigger and smaller seasonally (in the front-to-back direction) while ...
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Dovetails with undermount drawer slides
I'd like to keep using this style of slides on the rest of my drawers. Are those slides just incompatible with dovetails, or is there some trick so that I don't end up with a missing pins?
I can ...
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What is the best way to cut a dovetail on the end grain
I would just cut this with a handheld router and an edge guide. Stand the board on end and clamp it to your workbench so that the edge is flush with the bench top or clamp a thicker board to it so ...
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Dovetailed spine?
Yes, this will have an effect on the strength of the joint. Since the "spine" (I like your name for it) is one piece of wood, with all of the grain running in the same direction, one of the sets of ...
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Safe thickness for sliding dovetail in shelf
Considering the low loads and the dimensions you established there should not be any problem with making the dovetails extend 1/2 the depth of the shelf.
A More Technical Discussion:
My statement ...
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Adding weight to Veritas dovetail saw
I use the same saw and am quite satisfied with its performance. I might be wrong, but I don't think adding weight will help. While a chiseled line helps, I do not depend upon it to control the blade. ...
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