On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:39:09 -0600, Michael Losonsky
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I've done mitered top corners with finger/box joints,
>but how do you do that with dovetails?
Same way as you do with box joints. The top half-pin gets cut
normally, then trimmed to the mitre later. The uppermost tail doesn't
have its top edge sawn at all, then you cut half of this (just to the
mitre line) with a chisel, like cutting full-blind dovetails.
It's a useful joint - I use it quite often if I'm making a box with a
visible top edge and decorative visible through dovetails.
I thought this would have been in Frid, but I can't find it.
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Smert' spamionam
Thank you very much! Would it make sense
to mitre the half-pin first and use that to mark
the part of the tail you will mitre? I have
searched for a drawing of how to do this but
without luck
Andy Dingley wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:39:09 -0600, Michael Losonsky
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >I've done mitered top corners with finger/box joints,
> >but how do you do that with dovetails?
>
> Same way as you do with box joints. The top half-pin gets cut
> normally, then trimmed to the mitre later. The uppermost tail doesn't
> have its top edge sawn at all, then you cut half of this (just to the
> mitre line) with a chisel, like cutting full-blind dovetails.
>
> It's a useful joint - I use it quite often if I'm making a box with a
> visible top edge and decorative visible through dovetails.
>
> I thought this would have been in Frid, but I can't find it.
> --
> Smert' spamionam
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Michael Losonsky <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> I've done mitered top corners with finger/box joints,
> but how do you do that with dovetails? I want a
> dovetailed joint but an inlaid band on the top edge,
> so that needs to be mitered.
There's a good article showing the method in the August 2001 issue of
Fine Woodworking.
I have been recently working on a variant of the box in that article,
made out of birdseye maple.
Cheers,
Nate
Andy Dingley <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
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>
> I thought this would have been in Frid, but I can't find it.
I've seen Ian Kirby's writings on this, probably from a book of his, re-
published somewhere. Possibly a series in Woodworker West...
There was also something in FWW, maybe 3-4 years ago. The back issue is
hiding in the stacks right now.
But I haven't tried it yet...
Patriarch,
so many projects...
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:09:19 -0600, Michael Losonsky
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Thank you very much! Would it make sense
>to mitre the half-pin first and use that to mark
>the part of the tail you will mitre?
I make one side of the dovetail, then mark off the other from it. But
for the mitre on the top, I mark both mitres out separately from the
corners of the board.