Tutorial: hand-cut half-blind dovetails
December 21, 2009 by Al Navas (Sandal Woods) · 4 Comments
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Duration: 21:41 minutes
One of the readers of the blog recently posted the following Comment to the earlier article on More great drawers:
Could you add ‘Cutting Pins by Hand for Half-Blind Dovetails’ to the list of topics to cover? I fully get how to cut [...]
Hand-cut inlaid dovetails, by a member of Lumberjocks
July 12, 2008 by Al Navas (Sandal Woods) · 2 Comments
A woodworker at Lumberjocks, Martin, aka Woodhacker, documented in a wonderful photographic procedure how to make inlaid dovetails using hand tools. This is the first time I have ever seen inlaid dovetails done exclusively with hand tools; and Martin’s results are terrific!
The following is the outcome of Martin’s effort – you can read the entire [...]
Episode 19. Yet more cool stuff for Leigh jigs – Isoloc templates
June 3, 2008 by Al Navas (Sandal Woods) · Leave a Comment
Available in six joint patterns, Isoloc joints and templates are unique to Leigh. The styles are: The Wave, The Ellipse, the Key, The Mirror Key, Clover, and Bears Ears. Their large glue surface area and the mechanical interlock of dovetails combine to make a unique joint, available nowhere else.The three easy steps to make these [...]
Episode 17. Summary – the Leigh D4R jig
May 30, 2008 by Al Navas (Sandal Woods) · Leave a Comment
This is final episode on the D4R jig. It shows the Technical Bulletins that are available to allow you to make inlaid dovetails, simple or compound angle corners, end-on-end dovetails, and shelf pin holes and notches.Please remember, this is a Leigh-produced video, not my own. I have permission from Leigh to use the videos on [...]
Episode 13. Introduction to the Leigh D4R dovetail jig
May 22, 2008 by Al Navas (Sandal Woods) · Leave a Comment
In this episode I will be trying something new – I think you will like it: I have been given permission by Leigh to post on the blog the videos they have produced for their entire product line, updated for 2008.
I will publish the entire set of videos over the next few weeks. These will [...]
Dovetails Revisted – Parts 1 and 2 merged
March 19, 2008 by Al Navas (Sandal Woods) · Leave a Comment
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I am designing a large job for a client, and as a result my shop time has been limited.
This video has been very popular – I have received several requests to post it here. I merged Part 1 and Part 2 from previous posts into this one . This merged version can also [...]
Inlaid dovetails – Part 3, the Finale
November 1, 2007 by Al (Sandal Woods) · Leave a Comment
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I have truly enjoyed the journey, friends. Many of you have told me that you HAVE enjoyed learning how to get from the makings of a plain dovetail, to an inlaid dovetail. In this episode I show the process of cutting the pin sockets in the walnut (accent) board, to make room for [...]
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