I thought I would share the setup I am using to make hardwood dovetail drawers on my cnc. I know they are not technically correct, but I do not have a $10k aggregate, c-axis, gantry height nor the dedicated equipment for proper dovetails. I could buy the drawers from one supplier, but I decided to make them. It only took 12minute to cut out the parts, and I hope to reduce that yet. I think they are a reasonable facsimile of a dovetail drawer and do not take an 1hr a piece to make by hand. It is more common to use this tooling set to make the drawers with baltic birch, but here I needed to make the drawers using cherry.
Here is the table setup. I use 8 pods for narrow drawers and I can add 4 to 8 more pods to make drawers that are 7"+ tall. It took a while to track down a few of past errors and fix them, but it is finally working well now.
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Here are the pieces after they are cut and the deck is cleaned off.
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Assembled.
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Closeup of one joint. I will work on a few settings a bit more now that I see a couple small gaps.
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