How to Cut Dovetails on a Tablesaw
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- Learn furnituremaker Gregory Paolini's simple techniques for tablesawn through-dovetails. Plus, a trick for half-blinds too. Visit FineWoodworking.com for more woodworking technique videos.
I love cutting hand made dovetails because they look so much better then machine made. Machine dovetails are very good and very precise but the hand cut dovetail is what I love for the uneven layout and characteristic. BUT when there is a lot of dovetails to cut I turn to machines. Out of all the MANY types of jigs and techniques I have seen on TH-cam YOURS IS THE BEST. For a number of reasons. 1) the shier simplicity of the two jigs. 2) Again the simplicity of set up for each jig itself. 3) your jig can be made from scraps in the shop and it is so easy to make very simple in design and functionality. 4) the simplicity of lay out on the table saw and jig itself and the cutting rutine couldn't be easier and so PRODUCTIVE this jig can pound out tons in no time at all compared to hand cut, its simply the BEST.
That's a nice joint and all, but I'm really more impressed with your audio. That's the most pleasant recording of a table saw I've ever heard.
Marc Likens It was relaxing to listen to.
Isn't it incredible that you can literally carry on a conversation while a SawStop is running? I can't wait to get mine.
EXCELLENT tutorial . Clear and concise to the smallest detail ,thanks.
Well done video. Details easy to see. And no background music to confuse things during the body of your vid. I like it. I'm just starting my channel and learning from a number of you guys. As a musician and studio owner, I'm used to making music vids, but wood working vids are another animal so to speak. We can repeat takes until we get it right with music vids, but wood, not so much. You can't reshoot a glue up if the camera stops for dead battery or full card lol! Can't resaw a band saw box either among other things, but I'm learning. It's fun. I'm also learning that it's harder to get out one a week than it looks like. But it's a learning process. Again though, good video!
Wow, I am learning that pound for pound, the table saw is probably the most useful tool in the shop. You can make general cuts, and with skill and practice you can do things, i.e. joining and planing, without have special machines. Great video. Thanks.
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Sorry. I'm not that tall - that one went way over my head.
I've even cut circles with a tablesaw.
I'm surprised this doesn't have more thumbs up. Great tutorial, thanks for sharing such a simple method with us!
Outstanding, thank you!
love the half blind trick. Thanks for the video.
Interesting technique! I would never have imagined it could be done that way
i think some people will ignore the fact that when you have so many dovetails to do this is a very effective and efficient way to do it rather than by hand but if you are making a project with only a few dovetails then of course this is overkill but to blaze through a project or multiple remakes of something that's been commissioned then this is a mighty fine way to maximize efficiency, thanks for this idea.
Very nice technique and decently explained. My one beef with this and so many how-to vids is that they don't mention the common problems that arise. I'm pretty proficient with wood (skeptics can judge for themselves on my channel) but I would still have some minor chisel work and a couple tries to hit a nice fitting joint. This doesn't show that nor how to avoid pins and tails too short. It isn't the big skills that stall aspiring woodworkers, it's the little frustrations that come up with a project that aren't covered by Norm with his endless supply of tools. Just my perspective. Cheers.
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The minimal nature of the jigs and just using the angle of the blade or the miter is really clever. Other jigs that keep the blade at 90 but elevate/angle the pieces mean the width of each piece is limited to roughly a foot on the table saw. I also like the idea of gluing on veneer to make half blind dovetails. I’m fairly new to woodworking and think this will be the technique I use for my first dovetails. Thanks!
thats why greg paulini is the man
best explanation ive seen out of a thousand! well done lol... subbed
I tried this method and it works great.
Very simple.
Excellent video. Clear, informative and really well presented.
Can't wait to try this myself
The most simple and easy way and jig ever... great video.. i will try... thanks man...
Good woodwork,I'm also a carpenter, so I'm gaining my knowledge through TH-cam channel. Thanks!
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First, a great effort at instructing, Paolini is a master. Let me see if I can ever do it. Thank you so much!
Damn! Simple, easy, and precise. a very elegant solution.
Nice, always great to learn new things I can use my table saw for. Good vid bro!
EXCELLENT JOB...Really it´s a placer see you working...!!!
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Excellent video! Thanks for sharing! Very professional and nicely done!
That was an awesome video, I would have never considered making dovetails with a table saw, now I am compelled to try it! Thanks for sharing, screw the negative nellies! Like someome else already said, if this is such a bad idea, show me some of yours!!!!
awesome technic love it, saved tons of time, and made life easy
When cutting pins do you keep the blade at the 10' position AS WELL as moving the miter to that position? Or is the blade at 90 and you just move the miter to dovetail angle.
By the way this video has been quite helpful and don't see why so many are such jerks?!? Then again that is part of our society these days. Keep them coming really helping someone like me who is still a beginner. I have all the fancy tools but none of the knowledge or experience.
Nice work and a great tip that I'll try on an upcoming project with exposed DT joinery. I may have to do a combo of Tsaw and hand cut, as the top is too long for this technique, but this'll help with a joint that intimidates me a bit. This takes out "some" of the margin of error with hand cutting.
Much easier when I can see it in a video, the old FWW magazine article was ok but not as good as this. Thank you
Thanks for the video. Maybe I'm mistaken, but you don't discuss setting the blade back to 90 degrees before starting the pins. I'll try again, this time remembering to do it.
simple, practical and much more important, very useful!
hello friends, I really like this kind of work, good luck always
This looks to be the easiest and best method I've found. Question: will this be OK (not blow out) with 18mm (3/4") Ply?
It's great, very "simple", and it looks way better than anything i would do with a chisel only haha
Thanks
Good technic and smart guy.... good job man......
Very nice! I never seen this before! Thank you for sharing.
you have some SERIOUS skills.
Cool technique here. Great video!
Great build fore me. I could not use it because of my disability. I had a stroke and it left with the use of only my right side. I did so much better with the Dovetailer II by General tools. I use the router table and one hand to hold the work piece. Thank You for the challenge to build. Rick Prosser Molino Fl.
thats a real nice looking fucking joint.
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Great video. I think I'll try this.
Great video. I've subscribed to your channel and I look forward to following you on TH-cam. Thanks for sharing.
ignore the would be knockers... nicely presented video that shows a common sense alternative to other methods. the knockers in here are the ones who make the odd piece and never have to make large batches for their living.
I've tried this method and actually found it more time consuming and less accurate than by hand. The problem is inevitably your pencil line will not reference the exact location of the cut, whether by marking it or by eyeballing it to the kerf.
Would it work better using a knife?
Love it! Have actually done this and it is fast, even for onesy-twosey once you have the setup made.
Great presentation! Thank you.
Blair
Why not use this jig with a set of removable spacer blocks like they showed in FWW 30 years ago? It's like there's no institutional memory at Taunton or something.
Yep...and Steve Latta did it again about 10 years ago. I like Steve's method.
This is much more safer than using a router. Also I like the ability to actually see where the cuts are happening. My hand cut dovetails? Nope, lets not go there.. lol..
Excellent method well done
Overall the technique works well. I need to make my tall fences 3x as wide as the board for good support. Also low cost 3ply 1/2 inch is too fragile for small tails as they break off. Also need to remember to cut on the waste side of the line for the tails. Need to keep boards better aligned when marking tails.
Mr suas aulas são maneiras, muito obrigado (thank you).
when he was setting up to cut the pins did he reset the angle of the saw blade back to 90 degrees?
Absolutely brilliant !
The technique is nice but the joint isn't ideal. But that seems to be a layout issue.
When i cut dovetailswith a dovetail saw and a chisel i always leave the pins half a millimeter longer so i can trim them with a block plane. If he would have done that it would be perfect.
But still: Nice idea and the video is pretty nicely done.
Thank you!
Stepha
Is the Blade at the same angle for the tails ? it looks like 90 ° in the video
Its way in the past, but heres my 2 cents. YEs, It looks 90 to me too. I am trying to write down the steps and thought I missed seeing that adjustment or confirmation. It would be nice to know this before I start testing it out.
Great video, gotta try it.
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New to wood working. What is the purpose of a bevel guage? Is it important to have one?
what are the width dimension's of your jigs. I am estimating that they are around 12 inches, is that somewhere close?
Thank you It´s a great video
Nice , I like this!
Great video and really useful. What table saw were you using?
Good informative video.
Interesting! Thanks for the video!
If you have a look at Hyezmar’s design in his Woodworking Bible, you can get a great alternative design for this.
Great tutorial, thanks for sharing it Matt.
Thanks. Very helpful.
That looks soo hard. Thinking about it makes my head spin.
That is pretty cool!
This might be a stupid question but, what so good about making those dovetails to thin? the thinner they are the less sturdy, they might break really easily. Right? or I am wrong? is it just for looks?
***** ok, thanks box joints look good enough to me.
Fester Blats Thanks for comprehensive answer. Makes sense.
Fester Blats I totally agree from an engineering point of view, but that's not the whole story. English cabinetmakers would use fine half-blind dovetails on the front of a drawer (and, btw, through dovetails at the back). Why? Because the joints had an announcement to make. They announced, in a class-conscious society, that these objects were refined, that they were to be used gently by gentle-men and gentle-women. And they announced the refined craftsmanship of the maker, not his construction sense. A bit like the peacock's tail.. very impractical, but great for pulling birds! Lots of other examples.. eg seat-backs made almost deliberately too delicate.. in the perfect knowledge, that unlike a peasant, a lady would never rest her back against them.
Nice joint!
how much is a router dovetail jig? $100 for the basic predefined layout, 250+ for a decent adjustable..
Can you use a regular saw blade?
that a nice way to do it thanks m8.
I must also say that I found the "signature look" of handcut dovetails always quite ugly.
What is the name of the round tool that you make markings on a wooden board?
It's just a round marking gauge. They're pretty common, you don't have to spend Veritas money though :)
I've learned that comments should be disabled on all dovetail videos.
Good video
Good proyect for to cola de milano i made this manual
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Is that a 10" Flat tooth blade. Where can I get one?
Rip blades are usually flat tooth. You can find one at any good woodworking supply.
one way to do it and you wouldn't get your pins smaller than a 1/8'' and your only limited to the standard which is this if you can to make even better looking joints and a array of styles go for the saw b.c there so many dovetail joints that you can only do with a saw and creating a dovetail joint by hand gives you way more satisfaction theres nothing like a handsaw once you learn more about a handsaw you won't look back
Oh I see, I thought for this type joint got any router bit or other think bt now see it's absolutely depend on memory.
I play PC and Xbox games and have successfully done this. Additional activities are not a dis-qualifier for woodworking.
thank you
Great to watch, but I just know I'll mess up switching the board round and cut it wrong.
that was awesome!
That's the quietest table saw I've ever heard... the motor sounds like two pieces of silk rubbing together
I was wondering why are the tails are always so wide and the pins are so thin?
Aesthetics
lot of haters in the comments. I thought it was pretty cool.
Haters gonna hate. A lot more people liked the video than hated it!
long process, but makes things stand out for sure
Nicely done, but I think this would be a bit slow as compared to cutting by hand, even if you had 3 or 4 drawers to do. Of course, if you have to do a dozen, then this way would be faster.
Muito bom, perfeito!
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very nice, whos ever gonna know if you hand cut them or used the table saw... im not opposed to hand cut dovetails but we also have lives and crap to do now days, definatly not the 1800's anymore..
Dude !!!!!!!....... , It almost drove me completely ballistic, freaking insane, watching you make all of those cuts to eliminate that drop. You must get one drawer done in a full day. For a space that wide, you can make a plunge cut with the tablesaw. Then make a few cuts where it's necessary. That really just took too long and it came out looking like elephant shit. I thought that I did shit too slow sometimes.... But daaaaaammm !!!!!
Wait… My fuck up!! , I looked at it after and noticed they weren't as wide as I thought. So a dado blade would definitely take care of the problem much faster. As long as you make all of your initial cuts for All of the drawers, then go back and dado ALL of the wide spots.•••What Fucking Ever !!!!!!!!!!!! Now you see why all carpenters are fucking insane!!!!!!!!!!! :{€}
Beautiful
That phrase “Rinse and repeat” PISSES ME OFF
Skip the rinse and just repeat.
Man, i wish i had some tools and space
What is the Angle of the dove Tail???
1 in 7 is what I was taught. Don't know what that is in degrees, off the top of my head.
Good informative video, well presented.
Well, ALL you who have trashed this video, can we see ONE of YOURS?? or are you all too BUSY pulling other people to pieces?
excellent
Name and model number of the table saw anyone? Thanks.