Jessica Pierce-LaRose
09-23-2012, 12:48 PM
I was skimming through Will Myers Moravian workbench build over at WKFineTools (http://www.wkfinetools.com/tMaking/art/moravianBench/moravianBench-01.asp) and stumbled across an interesting way to hide grooves when dovetailing pieces. (http://www.wkfinetools.com/tMaking/art/moravianBench/moravianBench-13.asp) (Last two photos on that second link. Another photo on the last page (http://www.wkfinetools.com/tMaking/art/moravianBench/moravianBench-16.asp))
I've done or seen lots of different ways to fill this gap. Only grooving two of the pieces, using half-blind joinery, using a tail half as deep as the others, doing a mitered dovetail for one of them, filling the gap with an offcut, and whatnot. Certainly plenty of ways to do this, this one had just never occurred to me, nor had I seen it, and I thought it had kind of a neat look. Certainly probably works easiest in a larger scale piece like this, I could imagine leaving that little fillet behind might become tricky on small joints, but I thought it was pretty cool.
Will's finished workbench is really great too. Definitely worth at least a quick peek. It's a copy of a historical bench from Old Salem in NC.
I've done or seen lots of different ways to fill this gap. Only grooving two of the pieces, using half-blind joinery, using a tail half as deep as the others, doing a mitered dovetail for one of them, filling the gap with an offcut, and whatnot. Certainly plenty of ways to do this, this one had just never occurred to me, nor had I seen it, and I thought it had kind of a neat look. Certainly probably works easiest in a larger scale piece like this, I could imagine leaving that little fillet behind might become tricky on small joints, but I thought it was pretty cool.
Will's finished workbench is really great too. Definitely worth at least a quick peek. It's a copy of a historical bench from Old Salem in NC.