I got this very nice QSWO from Dan Cassen,
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and wanted to build something with blind dovetails, since I've never done them. Settled on the server because it would be a nice place for the big screen. Picked the wood for the top, glued it up, glued up the legs and made the mortises and tenons.
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I like to pre-finish as much as I can and came up with this way of keeping the finish out of the mortises. Plastic tubing hammered into the mortise worked better than anything else I've tried. Tenons get blue tale, ofc.
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And glued it up without major mishap
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For me this is much better than so far so good. No trips to Lafayette for more wood.