I bought a magnetic handheld mitre guide, and together with my Japanese saw they're the two most frequently used things in my workshop. Then I thought I should make my own guides for other things, like dovetails, and I looked it up, just in case soneone already did. That's when I found this video. Very nice work, and good video.
Thank you! Yes if was doing dovetail more frequently I would have bought a metalic commercial one maybe, but doing it once or twice a year I said why not make one, and is working fine. Got some smaller magnets now and a mini dozuki might try making a smaller version of it. Thanks for watching my video!
I just made my first ever dovetails today, the first one looking absolutely awful, but the second one was certainly a huge leap in the right direction and good sawing and chiselling practice. If it is a technique I end up using more often, I think I'll get something like the David Barron magnetic dovetail guides. They look good and are decently priced, I think, for timesaving precision tools. I really like dovetails. Once the two parts are joined, it feels like nothing can pry them apart again ever. And that's even without gluing.
Back when you started out as an apprentice, the first project they let you make was shipping boxes out of wood. But before you could make shipping boxes, you made your own tools needed for making the shipping boxes and a box with a handle to keep your tools in. ... My point is: these are simple guides, make your own and perfect your skills. You can't make a decent draw box if you can't make a shipping box. Sending lots of love 💖 from sunny 🌞 Arizona 🌵😷. Patience grasshopper.
You could take a knife and score lines mirroring the angle down the side for sighting how wide your dovetail will end up at the bottom, I use this type of guide and skip using a knife, I only mark the base line with a marking gauge and the top with dividers than go straight to cutting, the mirrored lines would help someone visualize if they got the divider lines in the right proportions. You can skip use only dividers and your saw if you use painters tape and be precise, no planing required. In Canada at the Great Canadian Dollar Store you can get metal dividers with the centered adjuster wheel very cheap.
Very nice video. First thing I had to do was grab my guitar n jam along (it's in A by the way). Then I went back to watch it from the beginning. Loved it !
What a fantastic vid, thank you bro. I was watching how to make DTs got fed up and started watching some attractive young ladies kind of dancing ;). After 5 minutes got fed up with that and went back to dove tails again. Stumbled on this vid. Brilliant little bit of kit which I cant wait to have a go at. Most vids show cutting out tail with fret saw and they always get it spot on. You cut it out leaving some "waste" making it easier not to go over the line and make clean up easier. Yer a diamond. Happy days.
Lol, thanks man! Indeed, my fret/coping saw is not a very good one, and the blade is to thick, that's why I don't risk approaching too much. Maybe, with a premium fret saw like Knew Concept (cost abt 100 bucks) you can go closer, doesn't bend at all when you tension the blade, so you get more precision. Even so, with that waste left, is easier to finish the chiseling, I just take small shaves with the chisel, don't hammer to much, and is turning ok.
awesome work man. and really find your videos good guides but pleas put some better audio cus the way you are making it now feels like science class i really like the topic but just falling sleep mid way thanks for the videos and good hacks
Wow. Now, I'm studying as a furniture maker and all my sweat and blood are in my dovetails projects that I had to make and come on! They are nice I've done a pretty good job but as I mentioned it is a hole lot work especially as a beginner. Amazing work. I think I will do something like this following your video's guidance, :)
Thanks! This guide is very helpful in making dovetails, but most important I think are a very squared edge and accurate markings. Good luck in your activity!
+Terry Lemaire Hi. I dont have plans for the tools. All of them I make them as the project advance. Maybe one day I will have time and put them all togheter on a website
Hi Adrian, great video. What did you put on the bottom of the first two guides? I guess it's something that prevent slipping, but what exactly did you use?
First I want to say that I love your videos. Your low workbench is amazing, I'm about 80% done with mine. I'm new to woodworking so this comment may be stupid but, on your 90 degree magnetic Japanese saw guide. Shouldn't the fence be on the opposite side. Because the Japanese saws cut on the pull stroke?
I made a magnetic saw guide last summer that was much larger, the surface is 6x2", and has lots of smaller magnets. I use it with a regular Japanese saw without a back, Works fine, but not as accurate as a back saw of course.
Right, otherwise the teeth will scratch the wood, also the saw slides a little easier on that plastic. The rare earts magnets are quite powerful, just one 20mm piece keeps the saw very tight, rather then the black normal ones used in the first simple guide I made which are not powerful at all, but they work well on non precise cuts.
Idk, super strong in chinese measurement units :) Anyway, they hold the saw just enough, not too strong to be hard to take it away, and enough to keep it on track.
Thanks Chris! Nop, those ones I consider disposable :) But I don't think is ok to add a plastic to longer ones because when you do a long cut usually you start with the saw a little inclined, so you may scratch the rest of the plastic and eventually break it. Another reason I see is at the dovetail guide as going down with the saw I was sawing the mahogany fence below the beech and workpiece line, thus I needed to add this plastic. At the straight ones I don't have nothing from the guide below. Anyway I think for the straight cut ones, a little chamfer below will work better. Using that first simple guide a lot, a small curve was created at the lower edge because of the saw teeths. Hope is understandable what I have wrote here :)
Cool, I thought you made it and was wondering how. I'm gearing up to make a larger wooden square and thought a small one might be useful as well. I'm enjoying the videos, btw. Keep up the good work.
Okay, l understand that you need a guide to cut the correct angle. But why do you need the magnets? Don't you use your marking knife to scripe a line for your saw to follow and it follows it? 💖🌞🌵😷
great video :) cant wait to get my hands on my own set of Japanese saws and start making all this cool stuff to go with :) Where did you get that gorgeous little square with the hole in the end?
Thanks! Don't remember exactly, but for sure I've screwed the final turns by hand. I've experienced prior to mount their cracking by letting one magnet to be "sucked" by the remaining 9x in the stack :)
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I now have my dovetail guide 80% complete! Thank you.
I like your tiny square and your electric angle finder, great stuff.
Thanks! That angle caliper is actually a cheap one bought from Lidl supermarkets, but is very precise and stable.
Impressive little unit! Thanks for sharing.
That’s a nice piece. Wish I would have saw this before I purchased David Barron’s Dovetail tool guide.
Great music 😎. Makes watching even more pleasant
Great presentation, I will make one. Thank you for sharing.
Splendid - thanks for taking the time to post.
I bought a magnetic handheld mitre guide, and together with my Japanese saw they're the two most frequently used things in my workshop. Then I thought I should make my own guides for other things, like dovetails, and I looked it up, just in case soneone already did. That's when I found this video. Very nice work, and good video.
Thank you! Yes if was doing dovetail more frequently I would have bought a metalic commercial one maybe, but doing it once or twice a year I said why not make one, and is working fine. Got some smaller magnets now and a mini dozuki might try making a smaller version of it. Thanks for watching my video!
I just made my first ever dovetails today, the first one looking absolutely awful, but the second one was certainly a huge leap in the right direction and good sawing and chiselling practice.
If it is a technique I end up using more often, I think I'll get something like the David Barron magnetic dovetail guides. They look good and are decently priced, I think, for timesaving precision tools. I really like dovetails. Once the two parts are joined, it feels like nothing can pry them apart again ever. And that's even without gluing.
Back when you started out as an apprentice, the first project they let you make was shipping boxes out of wood. But before you could make shipping boxes, you made your own tools needed for making the shipping boxes and a box with a handle to keep your tools in. ... My point is: these are simple guides, make your own and perfect your skills. You can't make a decent draw box if you can't make a shipping box. Sending lots of love 💖 from sunny 🌞 Arizona 🌵😷. Patience grasshopper.
Amazing jig, Thank's 4 sharing !!!
When we make the tools, we understand them better. Great video...! David Barron is a true inspiration.
Yeap, true! Thanks Jakob!
Nice idea and Excellent invention I like it, Thank you for this wonderful video
Very cool! Think I need some of those!
very innovative! I have saved the clip and I will surely make one . Thank you for sharing your talent and skills.:-)
Nice work!
Great Job Adrian I love it.
Thanks Joe!
Thank God!!! You Have Way Better Music Selection Then Most, thank you.
Great Build Also!
this is some high quality content, thank you for making this video
Awesome!!! Thanks for the guidance!!
Brilliant Adrian! love the filming style.
Nice job!
Congratulations from Brazil!!!
Thanks!
Obrigado!
Awesome Guide, thanks
Thanks for watching!
Cool tool and video. Makes me want to make one. Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Love your projects!
Very nice! Thanks for sharing.
Great job! I really wanna make this one.
Lovely! I was going to give up making one...but saw your vid.
I'll have another go at it. Thanks for saving me $150!
Thanks for this. Ki have a long way to go with my skills, building this will be a good test
Thank you for the informative video!
Good job! you are improving day by day.
Thank you Vice :) !
Magnetic saw guide inspiration! Gracias
very nice and useful project! And big music too!
felicitari, buna treaba! succes pe viitor!
Good Job. I'm impressed by your work 👍
Thanks!
Hi Adrian, nice job, I particularly like the way you use the 90 degree guide to make the dovetail guide. All the best, David.
Thank you David! Is the one tool makes the other tool principle :)
Beautiful job! I have to make my own :)
Thanks you Stavros!
Stavros Gakos ruclips.net/video/6tQA4stS3vE/видео.html
You could take a knife and score lines mirroring the angle down the side for sighting how wide your dovetail will end up at the bottom, I use this type of guide and skip using a knife, I only mark the base line with a marking gauge and the top with dividers than go straight to cutting, the mirrored lines would help someone visualize if they got the divider lines in the right proportions. You can skip use only dividers and your saw if you use painters tape and be precise, no planing required. In Canada at the Great Canadian Dollar Store you can get metal dividers with the centered adjuster wheel very cheap.
Felicitari , un tutorial excelent !
Really nice project and another great video!
Thanks Steve!
grandioso trabajo
Very nice video. First thing I had to do was grab my guitar n jam along (it's in A by the way). Then I went back to watch it from the beginning. Loved it !
Thank you! Appreciate it!
fair play lad you got skill.
beautiful saw btw
What a fantastic vid, thank you bro. I was watching how to make DTs got fed up and started watching some attractive young ladies kind of dancing ;). After 5 minutes got fed up with that and went back to dove tails again. Stumbled on this vid. Brilliant little bit of kit which I cant wait to have a go at. Most vids show cutting out tail with fret saw and they always get it spot on. You cut it out leaving some "waste" making it easier not to go over the line and make clean up easier. Yer a diamond.
Happy days.
Lol, thanks man! Indeed, my fret/coping saw is not a very good one, and the blade is to thick, that's why I don't risk approaching too much. Maybe, with a premium fret saw like Knew Concept (cost abt 100 bucks) you can go closer, doesn't bend at all when you tension the blade, so you get more precision. Even so, with that waste left, is easier to finish the chiseling, I just take small shaves with the chisel, don't hammer to much, and is turning ok.
Lol, I hope someday my saw stops dancing like my sailorgirl used to, great vid.
brilliant!
Thank you! I am in the process of making a guide like your brown colored one.
Parabéns…, esse é dispositivo é de grande ajuda para fazer encaixes “rabo de andorinha”, gostei do modelo que fez.
Abraço aqui do Brasil 🇧🇷
Cool Man, Excellent Video, Music was Bad Ass, and Your Craftsmanship is also Bad Ass!
Nice Work
Thanks Man! Glad you enjoyed!
Meserie! Salutari din Finlanda!
thank you .good stuff
Ótimo trabalho show.
A lifesaver 👍👍👍👍👍
Excellent! My next task.
Thanks for watching!
brilliant.
like the thin plastic idea. first i have ever seen.
Thanks! Is the same like Veritas and David Baron uses in their magnetic saw guides. I was not original :D
Excelente 👍 video, continúa aportando a los demás, haber si luego haces cajas japonesaas, me suscribo 👍
That was great, I need one!
Thank you very much!!!
great jig thx
This is a nice bed... With a nice comforter cover! Do you remember where you got it? 😁
hi quick questian what is the 4x4 with small legs for
awesome work man.
and really find your videos good guides
but pleas put some better audio cus the way you are making it now feels like science class i really like the topic but just falling sleep mid way
thanks for the videos and good hacks
I'd bet you get your micro square from Marco Terenzi! Excellent videos and thanks for the good work!
Thanks! Nooo, I would buy 20 of that for the same price :)) These are Shinwa brand.
Wow. Now, I'm studying as a furniture maker and all my sweat and blood are in my dovetails projects that I had to make and come on! They are nice I've done a pretty good job but as I mentioned it is a hole lot work especially as a beginner. Amazing work. I think I will do something like this following your video's guidance, :)
Thanks! This guide is very helpful in making dovetails, but most important I think are a very squared edge and accurate markings. Good luck in your activity!
Great Job!!!! What are the dimensions?
Thanks! I just eyeballed it starting from the 20x20 beechstrip and the 8mm mahogany board. Maybe a 60x60x40mm
Nice video! Keep them comming :)
Thanks!
Nice (good tunes too)
Another Great video
Thanks you!
How can I get some of your plans I’m just starting to get into woodworking and would love to try and make a few of your tools
+Terry Lemaire Hi. I dont have plans for the tools. All of them I make them as the project advance. Maybe one day I will have time and put them all togheter on a website
Hi Adrian, great video. What did you put on the bottom of the first two guides? I guess it's something that prevent slipping, but what exactly did you use?
Thanks! Just 400 or 600 grit sandpaper
@@AdrianPreda Thanks!
First I want to say that I love your videos. Your low workbench is amazing, I'm about 80% done with mine. I'm new to woodworking so this comment may be stupid but, on your 90 degree magnetic Japanese saw guide. Shouldn't the fence be on the opposite side. Because the Japanese saws cut on the pull stroke?
What angle you have on both side please,if you don't mind askin
I made a magnetic saw guide last summer that was much larger, the surface is 6x2", and has lots of smaller magnets. I use it with a regular Japanese saw without a back, Works fine, but not as accurate as a back saw of course.
So the plastic is just to avoid the saw to cut the guide?
great video and great tool!
PS: do you feel the benefit of the magnet?
Right, otherwise the teeth will scratch the wood, also the saw slides a little easier on that plastic. The rare earts magnets are quite powerful, just one 20mm piece keeps the saw very tight, rather then the black normal ones used in the first simple guide I made which are not powerful at all, but they work well on non precise cuts.
thanks so much for the answer!
How string are your magnets. Rare earth magnets are often measured in the pounds each will hold.
Idk, super strong in chinese measurement units :) Anyway, they hold the saw just enough, not too strong to be hard to take it away, and enough to keep it on track.
Precious! ...as excellence should be.
Thanks for the encouragement and the contribution!
Great!
Good
Great background music.
What angle ratio did you use? 1:6.....1:7...?? Can you give the measurements please for each piece so I can make one
What was the purpose of the washer & Screw on each side?
+Abby Kirby It's not a washer, but a magnetic disc. To hold the saw steady on the angle of the guide
Do you have link to the magnet used in this video?
Check neodinium rare earth magnets on ebay, aliexpress etc There are plenty of dimensions. eventually add countersink hole to search
Great job! Good idea with the plastic to offset the blade teeth. Did you do that with the 90 degree fence one?
Thanks Chris! Nop, those ones I consider disposable :) But I don't think is ok to add a plastic to longer ones because when you do a long cut usually you start with the saw a little inclined, so you may scratch the rest of the plastic and eventually break it. Another reason I see is at the dovetail guide as going down with the saw I was sawing the mahogany fence below the beech and workpiece line, thus I needed to add this plastic. At the straight ones I don't have nothing from the guide below. Anyway I think for the straight cut ones, a little chamfer below will work better. Using that first simple guide a lot, a small curve was created at the lower edge because of the saw teeths. Hope is understandable what I have wrote here :)
Gute Idee
Is that mini try square an angle bracket?
If you referring to the one at 2:39 that is a Shinwa mini try square, smallest one 45x39mm
Cool, I thought you made it and was wondering how. I'm gearing up to make a larger wooden square and thought a small one might be useful as well. I'm enjoying the videos, btw. Keep up the good work.
nice!
عالی بود ساده و کاربردی
Thank you!
Foarte fain
Mersi!
Well
Okay, l understand that you need a guide to cut the correct angle. But why do you need the magnets? Don't you use your marking knife to scripe a line for your saw to follow and it follows it? 💖🌞🌵😷
Thanks! To hold the saw better in place
Saudações em Cristo: Parabéns. Pode me informar a especificação do imã. Agradeço a esposta. Obrigado.
What your knife?
Veritas marking knife
Source for the Magnets?
ebay, aliexpress, banggood
great video :) cant wait to get my hands on my own set of Japanese saws and start making all this cool stuff to go with :) Where did you get that gorgeous little square with the hole in the end?
Check the Dieter Schmidt site, in the squares section. I bought it mainly for its "gorgeousness", but seems to be the most used square in my shop :)
Nicely done on the guides, but, I gotta tell you the jazz topped it off.
its easier too make the pins first! but nice Guide :)
+RedDustLP I will try once, never experienced
just a tip, dont use a power screwdriver to do up the screws, you'll likely crack the magnet if you overtighten.
Thanks! Don't remember exactly, but for sure I've screwed the final turns by hand. I've experienced prior to mount their cracking by letting one magnet to be "sucked" by the remaining 9x in the stack :)
Adrian Preda I made this yesterday, works lovely. I epoxied the magnets in in the end which was a nightmare as they kept leaping to their neighbours!
Weekend project.....
Foarte tare!!!
Good job....just like David Barron's except his are made from aluminum.
Cữ làm mộng én
few strokes on the sad paper for fine smoothing
im depress now