I'm building a desk for my daughter and have done a few practice through dovetails then I jumped straight into the half blind drawer front, they can only improve from here and I'm pleased with this one!
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I'm building a desk for my daughter and have done a few practice through dovetails then I jumped straight into the half blind drawer front, they can only improve from here and I'm pleased with this one!
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Grant I was looking for the saw you used in the picture, I see every tool you used but that one! You've done a fine job. Your tools are not bad for a first timer. Did you use a Japanese pull saw or traditional dovetail saw?
You can do a lot with very little! You can do a little more with a lot!
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D'oh I didn't lay the saw up there for the picture! I tried both and used a traditional dovetail saw, it felt best to me
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Very nice Grant. And love your mallet / hammer .
Stand for something, or you'll fall for anything.
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Thanks Bill a good friend on another forum gifted me that mallet!
OH and I have to give Matt Evans a shout out- I'm finally putting a few miles on his bench-on-bench moxon setup!
Here's a retake with the saw, I've been in turkey mode so everything is still sitting right where I left it ;-)
Last edited by Grant Aldridge; 11-22-2018 at 6:19 PM.
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Another vote for your mallet. I like it.Originally Posted by Bill Carey
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Another mallet like. Nice looking dovetail to boot.
Did you chop out all the waste or did you have someway to extend the saw kerf into the corners of the pins?
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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Jim I only sawed at a diagonal and chopped/pared the rest
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Here is an old thread on using a kerfing tool:
https://sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?256972
Derek Cohen made one a few years ago that is different than what is currentl available from vendors.
Before using Ron Bontz Kerf tool my kerf finishing was done with an old piece of broken saw blade with the teeth filed down.
Kerf Maker.jpg
It sped up my half blinds and made the fit better. That's hard to beat.
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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Thanks Jim I'll have to make one of those!
Lessons learned so far -
-Keep my damned pinky out of the way!
-Keep a bottle of liquid bandage nearby...
-I think I want to pickup a few duplicate chisels to grind as skew chisels!
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