Teaching at British Hardwoods
Next year I will be teaching my basic skills courses at the new teaching workshop at British Hardwoods near Skipton.
Basic jointing weekend 20-21st August
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How to cut lap dovetails – The Art of Slow Dovetailing II
Cutting lap dovetails is similar to cutting through dovetails. The difference is that you can't cut all the way through when cutting the pins. Instead they have to be chopped out with a chisel. Here I show how to mark out and cut a set of lapped dovetails as may be used on a drawer front.
Skelton dovetail saw review
This review appeared in Furniture and Cabinet Maker number 231. The Skelton saw is certainly a fine piece of kit.
How to cut through dovetails – An Introduction to Slow Dovetailing
You often see videos on youtube of people cutting dovetails very quickly, very impressive but not very instructional. In this video I give a step by step guide on marking out and cutting through dovetails.
Jig for Routing the Waste Between Dovetail Pins.
If you have a number of dovetail joints to cut, in a set of drawers for a kitchen perhaps, hand cutting can become tedious. This jig helps with the job of removing the waste between the pins.
Cutting small dovetails on the band saw.
In another article I described a jig to cut very large dovetails on the band saw. However the band saw is also useful when you have a lot of smaller dovetails to cut perhaps for a batch of drawers. In this short article I describe a time saving technique for doing this.
The Campaign for slow dovetails – How to Cut Lap Dovetails
This second article in my “Campaign for Slow Dovetails” series deals with cutting lap dovetails. It’s developed from the handout for my Basic skills part III course which teaches both through and lap dovetails.
The Campaign for Slow Dovetails.
In this article I will show how to cut and fit nice snug dovetails, the emphasis being on the quality of the joint rather than speed.
Dovetailing and drawer fitting
Five days. This challenging course is for those who really want to understand how perfect drawers are made and fitted; the sort of drawers that close with a sigh and fit so perfectly that one drawer comes out when you push the other in!
