There's nothing quite as pleasing as cutting through-dovetails for a box. Straight forward in execution and satisfying when done.

 

Well, I would agree with you if I could do them. Since I can't manage to saw a straight line I've given up on hand cut DTs. But that doesn't mean I don't enjoy looking at those that others have done.

Definitely!  Nicely done, Rick!

I was just wondering what you've been doing lately. Question answered. Very nicely done. Sweet little dovetail saw too. Like the marking gage. I have one just like it...well, except you're actually using yours.

2 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

I was just wondering what you've been doing lately. Question answered. Very nicely done. Sweet little dovetail saw too. Like the marking gage. I have one just like it...well, except you're actually using yours.

Nothing much lately but doing a lot of "honey dos". We had a lot of storm damage, from white pine trees, last month and I had to replace 3 sections of tall, wooden, fencing and rebuild a storage shed. When it was all done there was about 5K worth of  damage. We removed 2 1/2 large pine trees that had done the damage.

 

Next month, we'll be flying to Sicily and then onto the very southern part of Italy(think boot). I hope to find some shells worthy of carving.

10 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

Well, I would agree with you if I could do them. Since I can't manage to saw a straight line I've given up on hand cut DTs. But that doesn't mean I don't enjoy looking at those that others have done.

I'm in the same boat Fred! 

 

Fredrick great job!

Marking gages do you use pin or roller types?

2 hours ago, Michael Thuman said:

Marking gages do you use pin or roller types?

I use both, depending upon the number of thicknesses of wood that I'm joining together. This can also apply to the different number of mortise and tenon joints that have to be made.

20 hours ago, FrederickH said:

I use both, depending upon the number of thicknesses of wood that I'm joining together. This can also apply to the different number of mortise and tenon joints that have to be made.

I also asked in hand tools and most replied the wheels are for cross grain only.  Knives are best for in grain and pins are OK because pins deform the wood on both sides where knives don't but what mortise was ever put together without some type of overlap that would cover up the pin deformation.

 

22 hours ago, Michael Thuman said:

Marking gages do you use pin or roller types?

Dovetails- Pin/knife type for the depth/thickness and a marking knife for the angles.

Edited September 29, 20232 yr by lew