Tastes Great, Less Filling!!!

[Alden Miller]

Ok, I am talking dovetails with Mike Gabbay. It of course came down to the old tails or pins first question. I cut the pins first, Mike cuts the tails first.

What do you do?

-Alden

[Steve Wargo]

Tails first... Always.

[Mark Singer]

Tails....used to do pins

[Michael Gabbay]

Seeeeee!!!!!????:D

[James Mittlefehldt]

Having tried both I cut tails first always.

[Roy Wall]

Tails for me.....

[Tim Sproul]

Through dovetails: pins first

half blind - tails first


Most of the time. If you can hand cut dovetails, which first doesn't matter too much. I do pins first on throughs because it is easier to mark out the tails with the large tail sockets between the pins. half blinds are done tails first because it is really hard to mark out the tails from the half-blind pins.

[Alan Turner]

I am a pinfirstian.

[Steve Beadle]

I'm with Tim S in that I do the pins first on through dovetails, but tails first on half-blinds--and for the same reasons.

[Martin Shupe]

Tails first, as taught by Kelly Mehler, and CH Becksvoort does it that way, too.

[Michael Gabbay]

How about this.... half tails or half pins on the ends? I like the half pin myself.

[Jim Becker]

Hmm...pins or tails first. I always have to think about which is which!! ;) :D

[Philip Edwards]

Tails!

Used to think it mattered but since watching a "Pins first" type doing it realized that it really doesn't. It's all down to straight sawing and clean shoulders!:D
Cheers
Phil

[Alden Miller]

So Philip, are you saying I should shower before going into the shop? I usually do that afterwards. :)

-Alden