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Hand-Cut Dovetails: Pins First
Discover the pins-first approach to dovetails that the North Bennet Street School is known for.
Feb 07, 2017
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Videos in the Series
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All About the North Bennet Street ToolboxJanuary 24, 2017 -
The History of the North Bennet Street ToolboxJanuary 24, 2017 -
Easy Way to Glue up PanelsJanuary 24, 2017 -
Dovetailed Toolbox Case Needs Careful LayoutJanuary 31, 2017 -
Hand-Cut Dovetails: Pins FirstFebruary 7, 2017 -
Hand-Cut Dovetails: Tails SecondFebruary 14, 2017 -
Finessing the Fit of Case DovetailsFebruary 14, 2017 -
Cutting Joinery for the Toolbox CaseFebruary 21, 2017 -
Gluing Up a Toolbox CaseFebruary 28, 2017 -
Making Dividers for the ToolboxMarch 7, 2017 -
How to Attach Dividers to the CaseMarch 14, 2017 -
How to Make Dovetailed Drawer Partitions: Dado FirstMarch 14, 2017 -
How to Make Dovetailed Drawer Partitions: Dovetail SecondMarch 14, 2017 -
Laying Out Dovetail Joinery for the DrawersMarch 21, 2017 -
Cutting Half-Blind Dovetails for DrawersMarch 28, 2017 -
How to Fit DrawersApril 4, 2017 -
Cutting Joinery for a Frame-and-Panel DoorApril 11, 2017 -
Make a Raised Panel for a DoorApril 11, 2017 -
How to Assemble a Raised-Panel DoorApril 11, 2017 -
How to Hang the Door and Add a LocksetApril 18, 2017 -
How to Make a Shiplapped Back PanelApril 25, 2017
Comments
Outstanding! Almost as good as being a student at NBSS. Dialog crisp and camera work very very fine, particularly the closeups. Thank you.
Matt is an excellent instructor. Very good explaining all of the details of a process. Although I gut tails first I really like seeing this detailed presentation on pins first.
Please feel free to provide more of this type of content. Excellent presentation.
Perfect timing, I'm beginning a similar project, it's a great refresher course for a task I don't do often enough. I really enjoy Matt demeanor and presentation.
This is why I subscribe!! Great stuff!! Thanks for the excellent content.
Great content! For the longest time i found dovetailing really daunting but now I think I'lI actually dare try them on my next project. I recently became a member and between listening to you guys on shoptalk live and binge-watching all the great video content I'm beginning to wonder when I'll ever have time for actual woodworking of my own though...
Great information and length of video. The length of video is what many of the past videos have been missing. Dovetails are just a jig saw puzzle and its amazing how easy they are to cut. Its a matter of getting away from the fear of screwing up.
Is this when we start the debate about which to cut first - pins or tails? (answer - tails, of course!)
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Fantastic content! This is what makes me happy to be a FWW Member. Thank you gentlemen.
Great video - content, production, length, the whole thing. I'd love to take an in-person class from Matt, but this felt pretty close. Maybe it's coming, but I wouldn't have minded hearing his reasoning for pins-first and why he chops out the waste entirely with a chisel rather than the coping saw method.
Great video work. Amazing work by Matt Wajda. As for tails or pins first? Any way you want. As long as it is pins first. Pins first covers ALL bases.
Great content, and wonderful instructor!
I know it's already been said, but great instruction. Well articulated, Matt does a great job of evenly revealing the hows and whys. Great teaching.
I don't understand why you wouldn't cut the waste away with a coping saw and then chop to the scribe line? Seem like an awful lot of unnecessary chopping and wear and tear on the chisel edge.
I've been a subscriber/member for a very long time. This type of clear and informative content is why. Excellent series! Keep up the good work, and thank you.
Great content and I'd add that I also like the length of video as well. It would be nice to see Matt do a final summary episode addressing some of the questions posed to bring a good educational and informed finish to a great session. Realizing much of it is just preference, but I learn from knowing where those preferences originated. Great job.
Excellent content! This type of instruction is why subscribe here. Nice production of video. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
I just have to echo the other comments: amazing video series! Like others, I am currently also in the middle of doing the dovetail corners of a cabinet. Some of the lessons from the third video (e.g., don't pair tails with the grain) I just learned the hard way! :-)
Great video! I think those watching need to understand that there are many techniques for cutting dovetails by hand. What Matt is showing us is the way HE does it. That doesn't mean another way is wrong and it's always good to look at different alternatives. Even if you don't do it exactly as he did, there are great tips and techniques for handling a chisel that you can use in other situations.
I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the series and then starting to plan my own version of the toolbox.
Probably the best instruction on cutting dovetails that I have seen so far.
@BY_Corvallis and all who ask why this method of work-- Just a guess but he probably cuts pins first and chops waste because that's how he learned to do it from his teachers. One cat, many deaths.
Matt placed the Tails on the top and bottom sections of the case, therefore imparting the dovetail strength and integrity within the sides so as to prevent the sides from splaying away from the top and bottom. On casework like this project, is there any preference to where the Tails should reside or is it purely aesthetics? Since it seems the toolbox will be supported by a solid surface like a workbench and the toolbox case will not be put in motion like a drawer maybe the Tails could be on the sides or top/bottom.
In a case piece like this the decision is purely aesthetic.
Excellent video and instructor.
Where could I find the complete project?
What a natural, gifted, wise and relaxing teacher. How rare! Plus, no music which means one can concentrate. Excellent .. .thank you
Nicely done!
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