How To Cut Mitred Dovetails | The Keepsake Box #2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- How to cut mitred dovetails is the focus of this video, where I'll be showing you from start to finish how to construct this incredibly functional and aesthetic joint.
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Thank you for the detailed explanation on the mitered part.
Loving your videos! Especially the sharpening videos. I tried freehand but couldn’t get the muscle memory down and kept dorking my edges up. Honing guide is the way to go for this occasional hobby woodworker!
i belive you should use whichever methed that gets your tools sharp
As a woodworker that went to architecture school, I have a ton of basswood modeling stock in convenient 1/8", 3/16", and 1/4" sizes that fit perfectly in grooves made by the plough plane. I just stick a half inch or so of scrap in that groove so that when I shoot the end I don’t get blowout inside the groove.
So glad to see you doing tutorial type videos again....very well done !!!
Great lesson as always. Loving the Series so far!
Thanks for doing these. They are really great to do in my retirement.
Very helpful video. Liked the 45 degree guide for chiseling the miter. Camera work is excellent. Can’t wait for the rest of the series.
Good stuff Matt, I learnt a few new things watching this one ... The breakout avoidance is a good one 🙂
Wonderful Video! I learned SO much:). I've never tried a mitered dovetail, thinking it is WAY beyond my skillset, but now...I'll give it a shot. Your teaching method is methodical, detailed and first class. You not only showed us, but also told us "why". I love the way you show the good along with the "whoops" and the how to fix it. The real world application such as the occasional double scribe lines, or sawing slightly away from the line adds credibility and reality to your video. Please don't change that! I never thought of slicing the base of the extra material first before removing excess material from the side of a pin, thank you. Your tip of leaving a small peak of material and then paring it back slowly where needed is also excellent. I'm one of those who ends up with tear out in the middle all the time when coming from both sides. Your photography in this video was great, you spent a lot of time setting that up for us, thank you. However... I'm still a little lost on the sequence of sawing the miter portion of the pin, and how to avoid breaking out the tiny sliver of material at the tip of the miter, or the side of the pin. I can see myself getting all the way thru the pins and tails and messing up the miter part that shows on top. I'm not sure I can match your chisel control when it comes to trimming the material back on the side of that final pin. Is there another option, or do I just need practice.
Great to have another project to have a crack at! Mitred dovetails are something I need practice at and the method demonstrated for the paring block will definitely make it easier
I'm sort of glad you made a couple of mistakes, it makes me feel better about my carpentry.
Nice project and beautiful work as always Matt, thanks for sharing.
I find that this time the camera is just superb in showing all important details of the work.
Best tutorials on internet!!! Thank you!
Great video. Thank you!
Thank you for this educational video!
great tutorial
Excellent!
Excellent. I’m enjoying this.
I have frequent problems with tear out when making dovetails in softwoods. I’ve seen great improvement by first wetting the wood with alcohol or a little water.
i liked your cardboard trick . Im pretty Wabi - Sabi so theres no way mine can come perfect . good video i enjoyed it . Thanks
Just a side note; if you glue some 220 sandpaper to the bottom of the miter guide it is easer to clamp and less likely to move in use
a stopped groove would be so much better when marking out the pins, but i guess that would increase the cost of manufacture
@@DanSvoboda-hg5mm Yea also generally requires the use of a router, and you don’t get the lovely look of mitres finishing off the ends of the joints
Nice vid. Axminster link doesn't work for me.
Edit: most, but not all, of the product links also dead-end.