dovetail – Page 4

Dovetails in the Saw Till carcass .. better .. but

I made more progress on my saw till to day. It was a glorious day to open the garage door and work. Moses, the Wonder Dog, curled up in his hole in the yard and kept an eye on me.

First, I scrapped off the glue on my glued up panels. Final size was ~9″. The wood is alder (poor man’s cherry?)

Then I cut a a 1/32″ rabbet in the tail board to set the pin board in.

Deadly dovetails ..

Mill the board, cut it in half and label pins and tails.

Cut a shallow rabbet on the inside of the tail board to accept the pin piece later.

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Since I’ve started making furniture and learning about joinery, I’ve been looking at all the furniture in the house to see how things are put together. Laura has a piece that she brought with her that her family acquired as part of the purchase of their Walpole Island,Ontario cabin. The origin the cabinet is unknown. Here’s what I found:

Unevenly spaced dovetails in the drawers.

Solid wood drawer bottoms (not plywood) made of three boards jointed together.

Interesting molding around the drawer front.

The piece is actually a gun cabinet that we’ve converted to a dish cabinet.

So now I need to learn how to make this joint. The problem is .. I suck at hand sawing as you can see from my gaping dovetail. I have many dovetails to make before I sleep.