A Woodworker’s Notebook: Dovetailing Detailed

Some Surprising Information about Dovetails - Forest Products Research Lab report

Let's get this off our chests before we begin!

A dimensioned layout

Setting out the tails

Advice on sawing technique, especially for the tyro

Rectifying errors (if any) and a useful repair tip

Scribing pins from sockets, gluing and cleaning up

Instead of sawing and paring, we can chop

How to toe the line and mind the gap

This time, it is about the pins-first technique

A quick run-down - Not for the faint-hearted

This is a lapped, lapped dovetail joint

How to show mitred corners

Just in case you ever get bored with dovetailing

Accommodating grooves and rebates (rabbets)

Grouped and Cogged Dovetails

Vocabulary, Shovetails…

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