Cutting Dovetails by Hand: The Hand Tool Woodworking Apprenticeship Foundations Video
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- Опубликовано: 16 дек 2016
- mortiseandtenonmag.com/collect... … PURCHASE THE FULL VIDEO HERE! This excerpt from our new Apprenticeship video series shows how beautiful and tight fitting dovetails are made using only a few simple hand tools. This fundamental joint is seen throughout furniture made all throughout history. Period original antiques have dovetails that are surprisingly utilitarian. The obsession with engineer-tolerance precision dovetails is decidedly modern. Watch Joshua Klein cut this joint in the way it has been done for centuries: tight-fitting and strong but no frills.
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THE HAND TOOL WOODWORKING APPRENTICESHIP
This first foundational video in our Apprenticeship series serves as an overview for those interested in the hand-tool-only furniture making process. Come into the shop of Joshua Klein, editor of Mortise & Tenon Magazine, to absorb the woodworking methods he’s learned from examining countless pre-industrial originals. The evidence of process left behind as tool marks gives a beauty and authenticity that no machine can mimic.
In this video, Joshua sets out to unravel the unjustified mystique about hand tool woodworking for M&T readers. After looking at the basic tool set and sharpening, Joshua walks through how he selects his lumber and processes it with hand tools. The heart of the video is the demonstration and explanation of the foundational furniture joinery. An introduction to using shellac and milk paint closes the tutorial. Throughout the video, Joshua busts the myth that working wood by hand is simply naïve anachronism. To the contrary, he’s discovered it to be a surprisingly efficient and viable option for the 21st century woodworker.
We invite you to cut the cord and join us on this journey.
The best dovetail how to tutorial on youtube. You're the only craftsman that tells where to actually start sawing the dovetails on the boards. Saw on the line and then saw on the waste side. Doesn't get any easier and straight forward than that. Exactly how I was taught to do it many years ago. Thank you for the video. I'm sure it's cleared up a lot of frustrations for beginner woodworkers.
Phenomenal instruction and video. I am so thankful there is NO MUSIC! Awesome.
I know you posted this years ago, but those were some really smart and useful tips! Thanks!
This is an excellent common sense approach to cutting dovetails! Thank You Joshua!
Under-cutting between the pins-that's what I've been missing. Thanks for making this available! Can't wait for the second issue.
You're welcome! You don't need much but the little bit makes all the difference!
This video was very helpful, thank you for taking the time
The best dove tail how to I have seen, that over 50, excellent. Well chosen wording kept to a minimum. Great close ups model video! Congrats hope I can do as well.
Love the advice of "trying to leave half the marking line". I've been leaving the entire line and always end up paring to it.
Very clear, no-nonsense instruction. Excellent! Just what I’m looking for. I really enjoy your style of teaching. Thanks very much!
Thanks for the great guide - aiming to leave half the knife line is such a good thing to keep in mind and I think will resolve the bits in my dovetails that I havent been that happy with.
Great video, and I thought the Mortise and Tenon Magazine was amazing! Keep them coming!
Great content, beautiful camera work. Thank you!
Thank you for the suggestion of the V undercut. I have just recently found your channel and enjoy the style of instruction. Thank you for the informative videos.
Outstanding! Thank you.
Very nice work, very well explained.
Thanks
Enjoyed the tutorial. Very skilled with saws and chisels. Regards from and old goat in Minnesota :+)
Enjoyed the video, well taken, great narration.
Thank you! so glad it was helpful!
Really enjoy your approach to teaching. Thanks
Thank you! I try to boil it down for simplicity's sake.
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Wow... Just discovered your channel. Sublime! Well explained, no rushing. Beautyfull. Thank you!
Awesome tutorial so well explained on the how and why of dovetail. Enjoyed this very much.
The whole Foundations video is in the same style. You can find more there!
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How does your handsaw cut into the wood so easily? Why do I have so much trouble with that?
Can you tell us how you made that frame saw ? Or is it in your magazine ? TX !
It is from the plans by Tools For Working Wood.
Vocal fryyyyy
I appreciate the lack of math in this tutorial.
In days of yore, craftsman did not have the luxury of musings and fiddling around with cameras They were under immense pressure to produce. If one couldn't meet the demand, they were out of a job, which meant they didn't eat. I cannot understand this modern fascination with tolerances likened to engineering standards. Just get the job done.
Superb. And you're not even Japanese!
Not the greatest example iv ever seen, picked up some very bad habits. Undercutting your mortise reduces the gluing contact surface chamfering the edges of your tails is just cheating. Keep practicing my little hipster friend
The undercut area is endgrain and provides very little glue support.
And where can we go to see fine examples of your method? Undercutting and chamfering are done by many of the masters. Frank Klaus and Rob Cosman are two that come to mind.