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Larry Spitz

23/06/2005 9:01 PM

Home made jig for handsawing dovetails

Within the past few months I saw an item in a magazine describing a small
dovetail jig for handsawing tails.

The jig comprised a pair of crossed pieces of wood with the end of one of
them having slanted at the dovetail angle and a rare earth magnet inset
into that surface to attract and hold a dozuki at the correct angle.

Now I can't find the magazine item which I would like to review before
making such a jig and trying it out, but I can't seem to find it. I usually
read Fine Woodworking, Woodsmith and ShopNotes but also browse other mags
as I encounter them.

Can anyone out there tell me where I saw this?

Thanks in advance.

Larry


This topic has 5 replies

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in reply to Larry Spitz on 23/06/2005 9:01 PM

23/06/2005 2:37 PM

I'm pretty sure it was in the Fine Woodworking Issue that also
contained a review of Shoulder Planes, a Green&Green Style Coffee
Table, and some hints on Dovetails (seperate article). Don't remember
the issue # but perhaps that will jog your memory

BobS wrote:
> Larry,
>
> Can't tell you about the magazine article but Lee Valley www.leevalley.com
> sells a nice setup for doing just that.
>
> Bob S.
>
>
> "Larry Spitz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Within the past few months I saw an item in a magazine describing a small
> > dovetail jig for handsawing tails.
> >
> > The jig comprised a pair of crossed pieces of wood with the end of one of
> > them having slanted at the dovetail angle and a rare earth magnet inset
> > into that surface to attract and hold a dozuki at the correct angle.
> >
> > Now I can't find the magazine item which I would like to review before
> > making such a jig and trying it out, but I can't seem to find it. I
> > usually
> > read Fine Woodworking, Woodsmith and ShopNotes but also browse other mags
> > as I encounter them.
> >
> > Can anyone out there tell me where I saw this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Larry

Mi

"Mike in Arkansas"

in reply to Larry Spitz on 23/06/2005 9:01 PM

26/06/2005 1:07 PM

Greetings, these may be of help
http://www.woodcentral.com/bparticles/dovetailbw.pdf
http://www.woodcentral.com/shots/shot438.shtml
scroll down a bit on the second link.

hM

[email protected] (Michael Houghton)

in reply to Larry Spitz on 23/06/2005 9:01 PM

24/06/2005 4:25 PM

Howdy!

In article <[email protected]>,
Andy Dingley <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:01:05 GMT, Larry Spitz <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>The jig comprised a pair of crossed pieces of wood with the end of one of
>>them having slanted at the dovetail angle and a rare earth magnet inset
>>into that surface to attract and hold a dozuki at the correct angle.
>
>Lee Valley sell one, in extruded aluminium.
>
>(Who else would it be, selling magnet gadgets?)

...and I'm happily using them...they work pretty well.

yours,
Michael
--
Michael and MJ Houghton | Herveus d'Ormonde and Megan O'Donnelly
[email protected] | White Wolf and the Phoenix
Bowie, MD, USA | Tablet and Inkle bands, and other stuff
| http://www.radix.net/~herveus/wwap/

Bs

"BobS"

in reply to Larry Spitz on 23/06/2005 9:01 PM

23/06/2005 9:18 PM

Larry,

Can't tell you about the magazine article but Lee Valley www.leevalley.com
sells a nice setup for doing just that.

Bob S.


"Larry Spitz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Within the past few months I saw an item in a magazine describing a small
> dovetail jig for handsawing tails.
>
> The jig comprised a pair of crossed pieces of wood with the end of one of
> them having slanted at the dovetail angle and a rare earth magnet inset
> into that surface to attract and hold a dozuki at the correct angle.
>
> Now I can't find the magazine item which I would like to review before
> making such a jig and trying it out, but I can't seem to find it. I
> usually
> read Fine Woodworking, Woodsmith and ShopNotes but also browse other mags
> as I encounter them.
>
> Can anyone out there tell me where I saw this?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Larry

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Andy Dingley

in reply to Larry Spitz on 23/06/2005 9:01 PM

23/06/2005 10:47 PM

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:01:05 GMT, Larry Spitz <[email protected]>
wrote:

>The jig comprised a pair of crossed pieces of wood with the end of one of
>them having slanted at the dovetail angle and a rare earth magnet inset
>into that surface to attract and hold a dozuki at the correct angle.

Lee Valley sell one, in extruded aluminium.

(Who else would it be, selling magnet gadgets?)


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