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MARKING OUT AND CUTTING - THROUGH DOVETAIL JOINTS

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MARKING OUT THE TAILS
 
Mark the ‘face side’ and ‘face edge’ on both pieces of wood. These are the edges you will work from, when marking out the joint. Mark ‘1' on each piece, as shown below.
 
 
 
 
Align the two pieces. Ensure that the ‘numbers’ are next to each other and the ‘face edges’ line up.
 
 
Place the stock of the try square against the ‘face edge’. Use a try square and marking knife to draw a line around the wood (all four sides), starting at the ‘mark’.
 
 
Divide the end of one piece into six equal divisions.   Use a dovetail template and pencil, to mark on the ‘tails’. Shade the areas to be removed.
 
 
 
 
Place the wood in the vice at a slight angle, so that sawing is vertical (straight down). Take care to saw on the ‘waste wood’ side of the lines. Use a dovetail saw.
 
 
Use a coping saw to remove the waste wood, cutting just above the depth line between each ‘tail’.
 
 
Straighten the edges of each ‘tail’, with a bevel edged chisel, tapped with a mallet or pushed by hand.
 
 
MARKING OUT THE PINS
 

Place the set of tails on top of the second piece as shown below. Ensure that they line up accurately and that the face edges correspond to each other.

Mark the outline of the tails on to the end of the second piece. This forms the ‘pins’.

 
 
Saw down to the depth line, on the waste side of each line. Use a dovetail saw.
 
 
 
 
Use a coping saw to remove the waste wood, cutting just above the depth line between each ‘pin’.
 
 
Straighten the edges of each ‘pin’, with a bevel edged chisel, tapped with a mallet or pushed by hand.
 
 
 
 
Fit the two parts of the joint together and test for a good ‘woodworking joint’.
 
 
 
 
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