Originally Posted by
Gerald Schram
tony you said you were not happy with the dt on the tool box, it shop furniture dont let gappy dt bother you more than likely they will hold fine. shop furniture is a good place to practice a new skill. jerry
+1 on that. There is a chisel box of mine made maybe 15 years ago that was one of my early attempts at dovetailing. There are some big gaps on it but it still holds together. It lets me see my progress over the years.
Here is the chisel box:
Chisel Rack.jpg
You can see where dowels were added for extra holding.
Since then my dovetailing skill has improved:
Unglued Dovetail.jpg
At the time it was too cold to glue in the shop and too hectic to take it in to the house for gluing. My plan was to glue it up in the spring. Well, now it is kind of just seeing how long it will go without glue. It was made two days before Christmas in 2013.
Here is my most recent project using dovetails:
https://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthr...-From-Firewood
My intention was to include every bit of my dovetailing knowledge and hope others would add theirs. Over time one develops not only a muscle memory of the work, but an internal data base of technique. It is only by repeated efforts that we can eventually do something with what appears to be no effort.
jtk
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