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   BG | Nov 07, 2002 03:14am | #1

   I just built a draw with this kind of joint.  I don't know if there are instructions on the web but it's not too hard to do...more trial and error.  IMO, you do need a router table.. you can do it on the TS but the cut won't be as clean or fit as tightly.

   
   

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   Edited 11/6/2002 7:35:55 PM ET by BG

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   SgianDubh | Nov 07, 2002 03:19am | #2

   Janet, the basic instructions are quite good really. Set up an inverted router with a dovetail bit in a table and set the cutter to the height desired, and to protrude from the fence a suitable amount, i.e., just about as deep a cut as the side is thick. Then lay the inside face of the drawer front down on the table with the end grain rubbing against the fence and make the cut.

   Next, locate the inside face of the drawer side vertically against the fence with the end grain on the table, adjust the fence towards the operator until the cutter just removes a full cut of the dovetail angle, just, and no more. Cut all the drawer sides. Assemble the joint and drive in some pins as per the picture you loaded as an example. The joint should fit perfectly, although I confess I've never cut an example, and if I were to do so, I'd be tempted to lower the cutter about 0.10 of a millimetre for the cut on the drawer side just to be sure the half dovetailed side didn't bottom out on the front anywhere.

   I can't help you with already existing online instructions---- Sorry. Slainte. 

   Some stuff I've made.
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   DWRead | Nov 08, 2002 11:17pm | #3

   Thanks, BG and Sgian, I think I understand.

   Janet

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   DWRead | Nov 11, 2002 06:40pm | #4

   Sgian,

   I followed the link to your website and immediately noticed the neat graphic in the background. Wallpaper, a translucent lamp shade, note pad, desk blotter...where can I get it?

   Janet

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   SgianDubh | Nov 12, 2002 05:06am | #5

   Ha, ha, Janet. Just some old black and white scale drawings that I got 'blueprinted' one laid over another, scanned, and tinkered with in an image handling programme to make them it look like an ordered mes. Hmm. Maybe I could come up with a price? Slainte.Some stuff I've made.