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- From: holtt@OCE.ORST.EDU (Tim Holt)
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- Subject: Re: Steve Learns to Cut Dovetails
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:34:40 GMT
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- Go Steve Go! Another hand dove-tailer speaks out!
-
- There seems to be this "percieved complexity threshold" to do dovetails
- by hand. Not to broaden the Norm/Roy argument, but watching Norm do
- dovetails with his router and dovetail jig makes it look hard -- in the
- sence that it makes you think you need a (good) router, dovetail bits, and
- a (good) jig. Now if you watch Roy do it, it's another story. He just
- hacks them out with a saw, marking guage, and chisel, and by golly, it
- works! I think for me the two "secrets" of dovetailing that I had to
- discover were: (a) it's not that hard to do it by hand, and (b) the
- tails don't have to be identical and perfect. The ONLY thing that has
- to be right on a tail is the "length" must be equal to the matching
- board's thickness, and the sides of the cuts must be square. If you
- have tails with all kinds of crazy angles, it really doesn't matter,
- beyond some structural considerations and percieved aesthetics. This is
- true, of course, because you use the tails as a pattern for the anti-tails
- (what ever you call them).
-
- Comments?
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