I'm addicted to your videos and really like your style when making videos. I will be getting me some of those guides. I've never done hand cut dovetails. You make it look not only doable, but easy. I have a Porter cable dovetail jig, but find it difficult to use, which means I don't use it. You make it look easy, I'm not sure if there were out takes or not, but you make it look like something can do.
when setting up your divider you should start from the edge of the board instead of starting from the line. that way you would end up at the other edge of the board and you wouldn't have to eyeball the distance away from the edge.
Elev3n I was about to ask how the method pictured would work.. I really am not an expert on joinery. but I here's the way I would do it. please correct me if and where I am wrong. say I'm working on on a one by six. it will have a nominal 5 and 3/4 width. let's say I want three inner tails and the half tails on the extremes. I'm a little shaky on this I have done box joints and getting fairly good fairly as in the acceptable tolerances. so if want a total of four do I use three points and figure the ends last or do I use four points and l work from there.. I have done it both ways I'm kinda of a math geek so I like to know how and why things are done. I don't like approximates unless they are mall tolerances. I this all based on math. I watched a guy tldo a 1/8 pitch on dovetails. he said draw a line eight inches perpendicular and another inch across. connect these together at their hypotenuse and they form a right triangle. I thought OPP over adjacent sides is the I very definition of a the tangent of an angle which was learned in very quickly in trig.. so I thought 1/8 is is .125. so the arc angle of , that is .. and I went from there.. appreciate any help you give to me.
Jay, I know this is over a year old and I have watched twice now. I am wanting to practice some dovetails but don't know how to get started. How do you determine the distance of the half pin in the beginning? Thanks, Gary
Your choice to have 'halfpins' that are 1/2 the width of the others,however, the reason they are called 'halfpins' is because they are only sloped on one side.Just sayin'. The use of dividers is great.Thanks for doing this.
+Tucker Foss-Stockwell This is just one of many ways to get the same end result. Dividers are great for getting what you need without any math or measuring. On smaller easy to divide numbers it might be easy to just divide it out but if your board is 7-3/8" wide and you're wanting 8 tails it might get a little difficult to divide accurately. At first I couldn't wrap my head around why anyone would use dividers when you could just mark out what you need with a ruler by measuring. After getting used to this method I won't use any other. It's much quicker and very easily repeatable among many boards.
Perfect. Thanks Jay. Exactly the info i needed, clearly explained, and nothing else. Bravo!
I'm addicted to your videos and really like your style when making videos. I will be getting me some of those guides. I've never done hand cut dovetails. You make it look not only doable, but easy. I have a Porter cable dovetail jig, but find it difficult to use, which means I don't use it. You make it look easy, I'm not sure if there were out takes or not, but you make it look like something can do.
Thank you for this posting this great video. I don't know why, but spatially I have been having a rough time wrapping my head around dovetails.
dovetails to me are all about being precise,patient,and looking good
when setting up your divider you should start from the edge of the board instead of starting from the line. that way you would end up at the other edge of the board and you wouldn't have to eyeball the distance away from the edge.
i see ur point... (get it??) ;)
?haha?
"small joke"
+Elev3n 6 one way half a dozen the other.
Elev3n I was about to ask how the method pictured would work.. I really am not an expert on joinery. but I here's the way I would do it. please correct me if and where I am wrong. say I'm working on on a one by six. it will have a nominal 5 and 3/4 width. let's say I want three inner tails and the half tails on the extremes. I'm a little shaky on this I have done box joints and getting fairly good fairly as in the acceptable tolerances. so if want a total of four do I use three points and figure the ends last or do I use four points and l
work from there.. I have done it both ways I'm kinda of a math geek so I like to know how and why things are done. I don't like approximates unless they are mall tolerances. I this all based on math. I watched a guy tldo a 1/8 pitch on dovetails. he said draw a line eight inches perpendicular and another inch across. connect these together at their hypotenuse and they form a right triangle. I thought OPP over adjacent sides is the I very definition of a the tangent of an angle which was learned in very quickly in trig.. so I thought 1/8 is is .125. so the arc angle of , that is .. and I went from there.. appreciate any help you give to me.
Great video--exactly what I was looking for! :-)
Ha! I've got a divider just like that.... ;). Thx Jay
+Wayne Brown Really? I thought I had the only one like that....wait...i can't find it.
Jay,
I know this is over a year old and I have watched twice now. I am wanting to practice some dovetails but don't know how to get started. How do you determine the distance of the half pin in the beginning?
Thanks,
Gary
Whatever looks good. Try about half the thickness of the material.
Okay! Thank you sir.
this is what i like about ur projects.. ALWAYS precise and i see ur point too.. (2 for 2) (small joke)....very small..haha??
Thank you
how do you figure out the distance from the end for the half pins
does this same method work with finger joints?
So you need another set of dividers for the half pin width?
You don't absolutely need another set. But they are handy.
Very nice !!
Your choice to have 'halfpins' that are 1/2 the width of the others,however, the reason they are called 'halfpins' is because they are only sloped on one side.Just sayin'. The use of dividers is great.Thanks for doing this.
Dale Shewchuk how would you lay this put. I have had good success with box joints working on getting the boxjoints to be very good.
Muito bom !!!
The term "half pin" refers to the shape, not the size.
Cant you just use the width of the board and divide by 3 and set your compass points that distance apart?
+Tucker Foss-Stockwell This is just one of many ways to get the same end result. Dividers are great for getting what you need without any math or measuring. On smaller easy to divide numbers it might be easy to just divide it out but if your board is 7-3/8" wide and you're wanting 8 tails it might get a little difficult to divide accurately. At first I couldn't wrap my head around why anyone would use dividers when you could just mark out what you need with a ruler by measuring. After getting used to this method I won't use any other. It's much quicker and very easily repeatable among many boards.
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