Chris Becksvoort, the dovetail master at work - FineWoodworking. The Most Impressive Wood Joints – Woodworking ideas. Joinery is a part of woodworking that involves joining together pieces of wood, to produce more complex items.
Some wood joints employ fasteners, bindings, or adhesives, while others use only wood elements. The characteristics of wooden joints – strength, flexibility, toughness, appearance, etc. – derive from the properties of the joining materials and from how they are used in the joints. Therefore, different joinery techniques are used to meet differing requirements.
For example, the joinery used to build a house is different from that used to make puzzle toys, although some concepts overlap. Perfect dados – NO JIGS & NO MATH! How to make a box with wooden hinges only with a table saw. Making Box Joints: 9 Steps (with Pictures) Titebond Wood Glues: general differences. Two Ways to Make Cock Beading - FineWoodworking. Simple Blue Tape Trick for Tight Fitting Through-Mortises. Crazy Dowel Jig that works. Chopping a Mortise: An Inside Look, with Peter Follansbee. How to make Inlay Dovetails. Secret Mitre Dovetail (Full Blind Dovetail) by hand - Full Version. Rising Dovetail Joint Cut By Hand - 'Impossible Dovetail' Forgotten joinery techniques. How to cut a Scarf Joint, Time Lapse. Kane Tsugi Joint Three Way Pinned Corner Mitre. How to make a Butterfly Key - 03. Mortising Jig for the Plunge Router. Simple router jig and techniques: Woodworking tips.
Forgotten joinery techniques. 7 Flawless Woodwork Joints That You Can Make Easily. W3224 BillHyltonsFrameAndPanelMagic. Raised Panel Cabinet Doors. What is a Sliding Dovetail Joint? For the woodworker building furniture and cabinets, the sliding dovetail is a joint well worth mastering.
Strong and versatile, the sliding dovetail joint has many applications, from case construction to leg-and-rail joinery. You’ve probably seen a drawing of the sliding dovetail joint. It’s a hybrid of the dado and the dovetail, with a groove in one part, a tongue on the other. #2109 Tapered Sliding Dovetails. Tapered Sliding Dovetails. Through Dovetail Housing - How to cut by hand. ROUTER SKILL- Make a tapered-sliding-dovetail THE EASY WAY!
Big Ol' Sliding Dovetails. In the next few months, I’ve got a lot of furniture to make; Josselyn (my partner) and I just moved to Cincinnati from Maine.
Last week, I built a new coffee table for our place. This week I’m building a new kitchen table, in between setting into my new job and figuring out where to buy lumber (and food, clothing, etc.). Later this week I’ll post the full build of this project, here’s a post on what I did today. If you’re unfamiliar with the Staked Worktable from Christopher Schwarz’s “Anarchist Design Book,” the legs are mortised into battens, which are connected to the top with massive, 5″-wide sliding dovetails. The dovetail slot is 5/8″ deep and 5-1/4″ wide. Here are the two 13-1/2″-wide white oak boards I’m using for the top of the staked worktable. After getting the tabletop glued up, and before I cut the sliding dovetails, I had to surface the underside of the table to create a flat reference surface for the router work.
After that, it was time to lay out the dovetail slots. P.S. How To Make a Sliding Dovetail With Hand Tools - a How-to Woodworking Joint. How To Cut a Dado With Hand Tools - Woodworking Joint. How To Make a Stopped Dado With Just Hand Tools - Woodworking Joint. How to Make Butterfly / Dovetail Keys. Installing Butterflies/Dovetail Keys/Dutchmen/Bow Ties. Butterfly/Dovetail Keys: The Down to Earth Woodworker. Hand Cut Dovetails with Frank Klausz. The Woodwright's Shop - The Dovetail Variations. Dovetail Pin and Tail Patterns. Hand Cut Dovetails, a different approach! Rob Cosman's 6 1/2 Minute 1/2 Blind Dovetail. Hand cut dovetails made easy. 20 - How I previously cut dovetails. Hand-Cut Dovetail Joints. Reprinted from: Woodwork Joints by William Fairham Nothing definite is known as to the origin of dovetailing, but a quaint and pleasing little story which is well worth repeating runs as follows: A farmer had called in the local "joyner" to do sundry repairs at the homestead.
One day, whilst enjoying a humble meal, he sat watching some doves as they hopped about the yard. Struck by the movement of their wedge-shaped tails, it occurred to him to joint his timber by the interlocking method; hence we have dovetails. Through Dovetailing. —One of the simplest forms of the dovetail joint is shown in Fig. 267, where two pieces of timber are joined by the method known as "through" dovetailing.
Figs. 268 and 269 show the method of through dovetailing as applied to the making of boxes, plinths, and general carcase work; it is used in positions where no objection can be taken to the end grain showing on each side of the finished work. Lap-dovetailing. Angles. Squaring. Gauging. Dovetails Demystified - A simple & sophisticated way to cut dovetails. Tips for Cutting Half Blind Dovetails Part 1, with Tim Rousseau. Tips for Cutting Half Blind Dovetails Part 2, with Tim Rousseau. Secret Mitered Dovetails with Kaare Loftheim at Colonial Williamsburg. How to Make a Half-blind Dovetail Joint. How to make Dovetail Joints.
Chisel techniques for hand cut dovetails. Make a Dovetail Alignment Board.