Okay, a few more dovetailed boxes    ...

 

Box with coppered lid ...

 

 

 

 

Lapdesk ...

 

 

 

Regards from Perth

 

Derek

 

Fascinating use of DTs, Derek. Yours are beautifully done. 

Twould be more exciting to see HOW one does a hand cut dovetail....than just doing the old "My dovetails look better than YOURS" routine....now, wouldn't it? 

 

Have a case to build this week, to house a few "extra" chisels.....sorry, can't get any Jarrah...will just make do with some Ohio wood...maybe Poplar, again.   Trying to decide on whether Dovetails ...or....box/finger joints...as I do both by hand. 

 

Maybe do another "Build-along" on how I do such  "complicated" things...

Good to see you back, Derek @derekcohen

23 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Twould be more exciting to see HOW one does a hand cut dovetail....than just doing the old "My dovetails look better than YOURS" routine....now, wouldn't it? 

 

Have a case to build this week, to house a few "extra" chisels.....sorry, can't get any Jarrah...will just make do with some Ohio wood...maybe Poplar, again.   Trying to decide on whether Dovetails ...or....box/finger joints...as I do both by hand. 

 

Maybe do another "Build-along" on how I do such  "complicated" things...

gopherit

 

This just popped up in an email from Woodworker's Journal-

 

https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/dovetail-joints-pin-tail-patterns/

7 hours ago, steven newman said:

Twould be more exciting to see HOW one does a hand cut dovetail....than just doing the old "My dovetails look better than YOURS" routine....now, wouldn't it? 

 

Have a case to build this week, to house a few "extra" chisels.....sorry, can't get any Jarrah...will just make do with some Ohio wood...maybe Poplar, again.   Trying to decide on whether Dovetails ...or....box/finger joints...as I do both by hand. 

 

Maybe do another "Build-along" on how I do such  "complicated" things...

Well Steven, I did post three or four pictorials on how to cut dovetails at the start. But here is a link to videos I have made, all in real time, so do not watch if tired!

 

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCa0A27dNoxW2b8lGNzCRpsw

 

The last one ...

 

 

These were made rather impromtu with my phone. Perhaps you could do so for us as well?

 

Regards from Perth

 

Derek

Edited October 9, 20205 yr by derekcohen

Just like about EVERY build along I post on this site.....usually a step-by-step, with looks of photos.....getting ready to start another Project...stock prep is underway..

Afraid the plane in the picture is a rather plain one..

Millers Falls No. 11, Type 2....aka..Junior Jack plane....

 

BTW: I have ZERO video available,,because..1, I have nobody to do the camera work, WHILE I am doing the woodworking,and 2, I have nothing from them to use to even make the video with, camera wise....Rex Krueger I am not.   he lives 400+ miles northeast of here....

 

Steven, I would love to see you in action. I do not have an assistant - just a phone on a tripod (which is clear when you watch my "videos").

 

Regards from Perth

 

Derek

1 hour ago, derekcohen said:

I do not have an assistant

oo oo  I do!  Not very helpful though.  Camera work is kinda iffy...

 

4 hours ago, Gunny said:

oo oo  I do!  Not very helpful though.  Camera work is kinda iffy...

 

 

If my experiences with the feline in the workshop area is anything to go by, they're more of a supervisor rather than camera operator!

 

6 hours ago, Gunny said:

oo oo  I do!  Not very helpful though.  Camera work is kinda iffy...

 

Aren't you worried about a rust spot in the saw?????

Nah...mine usually won't go into the shop...No longer have The Shop Cat. 

 

Hmmm...through dovetails again? or...Finger/Box joints by hand......Hmmmm...haven't done the fingers by hand,for a while, might be out of practize.

 

We'll see ( maybe take a vote?) Will do LOTS of pictures, either way....Have to get the Single Brain Cell Sketch Up back on-line....and see what Moose & Squirrel can draw up?

Edited October 9, 20205 yr by steven newman

Derek, I am in awe of your skill.  I remember seeing some of your progress on that table on Woodnet.

 

I am also pleasantly surprised you can get some of the tools and references that I'm familiar with -- Lee Valley, Lie-Nielsen, MatchFit, Blue Spruce, Fine Woodworking, Chris Schwarz (Moxon vise), etc.  I also liked your shop in the background.

 

My favorite math professor taught me that the difference between a trick and a technique is that a technique is simply a trick used more than once. I also remember Tage Frid's technique of using an old card scraper to bang out the walls of a half-blind dovetails.

 

I use green tape and not blue tape, do you think that would work OK?  

Well, you got me on that one. "How to cut a dovetail thread" Of course I was not thinking the obvious. I have cut wooden threads before in broom handles and also in a quilting loom. Not on a dovetail.  There is always someone who thinks differently

18 hours ago, Gunny said:

oo oo  I do!  Not very helpful though.  Camera work is kinda iffy...

And I always thought your camera work was just "purr-fect".

Welp, furnace won't get put in until next week...means I have all of this weekend to work IN the shop...might even make a few dovetail joints? 

 

One more week with no heat in the house....

On 10/8/2020 at 9:50 AM, derekcohen said:

Sawing dovetails are no different to sawing tenons, or any other joinery - one has to mark cleanly, see clearly, and saw to the lines. 

 

Basic dovetails can be quickly mastered with persistence and practice - just have a "go for it" attitude!

 

More advanced dovetails take a little longer

 

 

Through dovetails:  http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/ThroughDovetails3.html

 

 

 

Half-blind dovetails:  http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/HalfBlindDovetailswithBlueTape.html

 

 

 

Houndstooth dovetail:  http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/BuidingaBench4.html

 

 

 

Mitred through dovetails:  http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/AnotherCoffeeTable2.html

 

 

Regards from Perth

 

Derek

Thanks for the link to the video. I must have missed it in the original post. Really appreciate the tips and seeing some of the jigs you have made.

12 hours ago, steven newman said:

 

 

One more week with no heat in the house....

I'm sure it's cool inside, but at least we're not below normal temps right now.

21 hours ago, kmealy said:

.....

 

I am also pleasantly surprised you can get some of the tools and references that I'm familiar with -- Lee Valley, Lie-Nielsen, MatchFit, Blue Spruce, Fine Woodworking, Chris Schwarz (Moxon vise), etc.  ....

 

Thanks. We have all the same tools as available in the US. There are a number of stores that import Veritas, LN, etc. The woodworking community in Australia is no different from that around the world, and the world is a small place now thanks to the internet. We live across the world from each other, and do exactly the same things, influenced similarly .. well, Oz was probably influenced more in the past by the UK, with many migrants from the 50's onward. Get a copy of the Australian Wood Review magazine to sample the local approach. 

 

My machines are predominantly Austrian (3xHammer) and New Zealand (2xNova), with Australian, Canadian and US hand planes, saws, chisels ... 

 

Our wood is different. Certainly West Australian wood is very hard, but also very beautiful. 

21 hours ago, kmealy said:

 

I use green tape and not blue tape, do you think that would work OK?  

I am not sure if the tolerances of the green tape match those of the blue tape. Let us know how you get on ....

 

Regards from Perth

 

Derek