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Re: Handcut DT ? - Peter Tremblay - 03-23-2016
Bibliophile 13 said:
I use dividers and a small square to space them out, and it works pretty quickly. If I cut dovetails as often as Dave D. (above) does, I'd probably be doing them by eye as well.
FWIW, I also plane out the baseline. I know it's historically-correct to leave it in some places, but I don't like how it looks. So I get rid of it.
One of these days, maybe my way of doing it will be considered "historically correct."
Me, too.
But I do leave the baseline.
Re: Handcut DT ? - Dave Diaman - 03-23-2016
Peter Tremblay said:
[blockquote]Bibliophile 13 said:
I use dividers and a small square to space them out, and it works pretty quickly. If I cut dovetails as often as Dave D. (above) does, I'd probably be doing them by eye as well.
FWIW, I also plane out the baseline. I know it's historically-correct to leave it in some places, but I don't like how it looks. So I get rid of it.
One of these days, maybe my way of doing it will be considered "historically correct."
Me, too.
But I do leave the baseline.
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Peter also tells me that the big gaps in his dovetails are period correct but I don't think you should be able to se light through your joinery
Pass the wood filler please
Re: Handcut DT ? - Peter Tremblay - 03-23-2016
We can do this all day, Dave.
I was there the night that your DTs didn't even go together.
Re: Handcut DT ? - Dara - 03-23-2016
Wait a second...if you can't see through the dovetails, why am I wasting all this money on FWW magazines with tips to fix gappy joints...and I don't like leaving the base line...
Re: Handcut DT ? - Dave Diaman - 03-24-2016
The difference is I have evidence.
Exhibit #1 Is the dovetails from Peter's Bombe' which still sets in pieces waiting to be completed.
Exhibit #2 is the dovetails on my Bombe' chest I finished a few years ago. Oh and did I mention that we started at the same time. I will not bother to point out the complexity of compound dovetails compared to what you cut. Want to go another round
Re: Handcut DT ? - Peter Tremblay - 03-24-2016
I can't believe that you used my own pictures against me.
Something this good shouldn't be done all at once!
Ok... I'm finished.
Re: Handcut DT ? - Steve N - 03-24-2016
Peter Tremblay said:
Would it be appropriate for me to come into this thread to point out that you cut them wrong... by that I mean pins first.
So Peter you are openly admitting that you cut your DTs bass ackward, meaning tails first. Ohh, the horrors, and you a Man of the cloth
Dave cuts his correctly if he goes pins first
This is truly Hatfield's and McCoy's kinda stuff
Re: Handcut DT ? - Dara - 03-24-2016
I dunno...Dave's seem kinda pointy compared to Peter's...is that a good thing?
Re: Handcut DT ? - Halfathumb - 03-25-2016
I started this thread but embarrassed to show the DTs I've cut by hand. It's still a work in progress.
My photography & Photobucket skills are about where my DT cutting skills are, "not good". Click on the pic and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Re: Handcut DT ? - Dave Diaman - 03-25-2016
Dara said:
I dunno...Dave's seem kinda pointy compared to Peter's...is that a good thing?
My piece is a reproduction and that is how the original was built. That style dovetail was very common in Townsend and Goddard pieces also.