Hey everyone! Let's have some fun and show your dovetails here! All skill levels welcome. Show us your stuff. It's about the joy in the journey!!!

I'm trying, I'm trying!

John....I do most of my dovetails in pine. It is difficult but can be mastered. Pine tends to tear, rip or shred before slicing when using chisels. Try changing your chisel primary bevel to 17 - 20°. You'll be surprised.

When I abandoned the PC Omni-Jig, I made these to help with layout. The angles are subject to discussion and application.

Lew.... those are quite useful. I like them. I made several layout gauge sets as well that I learned from Paul Sellers. He had a YouTube about it. Shown here below are ratios 1:7 and 1:8. But I also have two others, 1:4 and 1:6.

Love them! Great for laying out your tails and/or pins.

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Here’s the ones I did for the kitchen drawers in cedar.

Was it fun?!

Always enjoy working with cedar, cutting dovetails is a bonus.

I've been doing dovetails for a while now and never tire of doing them. Sure some woods are more troublesome than others but you learn a few things to do differently to overcome the challenge. For one... have those chisels SHARP! REAL SHARP!! Secondly.. depending on what wood you are doing dovetails on consider changing your primary bevel with no micro bevel. For example, with pine I use 17 -20°. 30° for hardwood but both again very SHARP!

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We wood spinners also use dovetails- of sorts! Whether you call them butterflies, dutchmen, bowties or Pewa patches they hold things together!

Awesome lew! Love it.

I really like butterfly keys. It’s a solid repair that adds character so you don’t have to try to conceal them.

The only dove tails I've ever done are holding the legs on this table And yes fun in an odd And nerve wracking way

Well… regular box corners should be no trouble.