Laying Out Perfect Dovetails with a Few Affordable Tools

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Joshua shows a traditional method to laying out perfectly spaced tails on a dovetail joint. Links to dividers, marking gauge, combination square, sliding bevel square, etc:
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@Franco4590 4 года назад

Joshua, Love your channel. I believe i'm a better woodworker cause of you. Thanks for sharing.

@WoodAndShop 4 года назад

Ah, thanks for the kind words. Glad it's been helpful!

@vernonraines3002 2 года назад

Thanks. Answered a lot of question.

@skippylippy547 5 месяцев назад

You made that look so easy! Very nice video. Thank you.

@insanusvir 2 года назад

This is the clearest and best explanation I have seen on dovetail layout. I have gone back and watched others again and they are easier to understand. Thank you

@CinkSVideo Год назад

I’ve watched this process many times but yours is the first time I’ve seen the steps so clearly explained.

@ingwiefreak 4 года назад

Ive seen lots of videos on this technique and yours is the most clearly explained .

@WoodAndShop 4 года назад

Great to hear! Yeah, this skill is usually hurried through in a full tutorial, which is why I wanted to focus in just on this part.

@znoot 4 года назад

"Do what looks good." Thank you. So many people always put up those rules, like you have to use 1:6 for soft woods and 1:8 for hard woods. I always use somewhere around 1:6 so around 9°, and i've never had hard wood split or anything like that.

@MermaidMakes 10 месяцев назад

It’s gatekeeping! Every craft or art has people like that in it. You just do what works for you. My husband and I recently built a fiddle and broke a lot of the erroneous rules. It works and sounds awesome, but we didn’t have all these expensive tools and things they tell you that you need. We didn’t use the highest quality wood. We didn’t have any fancy gadgets. We just did it for fun, and that’s all that matters!

@tworiversworkshop6111 Год назад

Very good, thank you!

@chriscorley7034 4 года назад

This is one of the most practical easy to understand no nonsense approach to beginner dovetail work. Thank you, you are really making better woodworkers.

@einsteinbpc Год назад

You blew my mind with the spacing. And thank you so much for throwing the angles out the window. We overthink things too much these days rather than just making.

@chriscunicelli7070 4 года назад

Great! Thanks Josh.

@timothymallon Год назад

That's just about the easiest way I have seen to layout dovetails. Thank you!

@Arco326 3 года назад

Love the way you organized the pins...no fuss... easy to do...

@ryanallthewiser 3 года назад

Great and easy to follow video Joshua.

@DH-ry2ho 5 месяцев назад

Such a great teacher. Thank you!

@mrbotak9011 3 года назад

Tq..best explanation..

@animeclips7232 4 года назад

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, it is indeed very helpful for me and I am following these ways.

@edvaldolopesferraz1109 4 года назад

Muito bom!

@cds957 6 месяцев назад

Great video sir, it's nice to watch your site without a lot of hype...thank you.

@johnroth8275 4 года назад

Thanks. Very helpful.

@WoodAndShop 4 года назад

Glad you liked it!

@HansHoffmeister 2 года назад

best layout explanation I have seen, thank you so much!

@prspastor 4 года назад

Perfect! Thanks for this great lesson.

@WoodAndShop 4 года назад

You're most welcome!

@richardsilva-spokane3436 6 месяцев назад

Excellent video! You explained it so simply 👍👍👍

@kevindowd7769 4 года назад

Excellent Video... Thanks!

@WoodAndShop 4 года назад

You're most welcome Kevin! Would you mind subscribing to my channel?

@kevbishupstate2115 3 года назад

Just found your channel one video and had to subscribe I believe I will be learning a lot from you 👍

@thewoodlesworkshop.157 4 года назад

Very useful video ... Thank you. Take care of yourself and good luck.

@WoodAndShop 4 года назад

Thanks!

@The78bluedevils 4 года назад

Thanks, you made it look so simple .

@WoodAndShop 4 года назад

You're welcome Tony!

@walterrider9600 4 года назад

thank you

@WoodAndShop 4 года назад

You're most welcome Walter!

@horncraftindiawoodenhandic6055 4 года назад

Good way of explaining your work

@WoodAndShop 4 года назад

Thanks!

@ronhau1542 Год назад

Okay, I’m about to start trying learn this and layout is what I wasn’t following. I can follow this. TY!

@andrewooddotcom 4 года назад

Thanks for video :)

@WoodAndShop 4 года назад

You're most welcome!

@Rich32262 Год назад

If you haven't already, get yourself a mechanical drafting pencil. When you want more graphite it comes out in shorter increments and therefore it doesn't break as easily. I paid about $10. wouldn't consider going back to the cheap ones. Great instruction as usual.

@philstevens6934 3 года назад

Excellent video. I have always laid out pins first. I would be interested to know why you start with the tails. Many thanks.

@ikust007 4 года назад

Clear and clean explanations. Thank you ! God I love those Moravian benches

@WoodAndShop 4 года назад

Thanks! Come by and try a Moravian Workbench out sometime!

@ikust007 4 года назад

I bought the video you made with Mr. Myers:)) this is my DREAM bench . Can’t wait to start it. There is something about it that I love that I can’t explain. Btw: did you make a video about the Moravian step stool!!? I live in Quebec .. it’s a bit far for a weekend :((

@WoodAndShop 4 года назад

@@ikust007 Cool! Yeah, it's my favorite style of workbench, because it's sturdy without being heavy. Yes, I made the video about the Moravian Footstool. Well, you can imagine that you're here in the school!

@ikust007 4 года назад

Wood and Shop The video is for sale ?

@ikust007 4 года назад

Wood and Shop I am looking on your site to find the Moravian footstool: love the angled legs

@sawyerphillips9493 8 месяцев назад

This was a great video, I'm definitely going to use this technique. How do you layout the other piece though?

@MRrwmac 4 года назад

Well explained and demonstrated. I’ve done dovetails but still wonder if it’s more the ascetics than the strength (because of the better glues today) that make them so appealing to us woodworkers?

@WoodAndShop 4 года назад

For me it is definitely aesthetics, but also strength. There aren't any stronger joints for holding cases together. But funnily enough, dovetails used to be seen as provincial, so higher society would have them hidden. Here's another one of my videos that shows this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ajG26AP6Ub0.html

@markjohnston7172 4 года назад

MRrwmac Historic hide glues were just as strong as the glues used today by furniture makers.

@mrferris4379 4 года назад

Would of been good to have mentioned the 1-6 (mark 1 up from a edge 6 alongside and match the 2 points to find the angle)for softwood or fast grown or 1-9 for hardwood or figured as a general guide line though I have found very little need to worry about it except in maybe draw fronts or where a lot of stress will be exerted.

@bradiannantuono8225 4 года назад

Thanks somehow I could not get my mind around how to measure them out.

@WoodAndShop 4 года назад

No measuring required! Just pull out a board and try it, and it'll make sense to you.

@distortedodin 7 месяцев назад

This showed up in my RU-vid list. I know it's older...but still well done. Unfortunately the link to the dividers is not working. Does anyone have a link to one they use and like, please?

@FredoJ 4 года назад

Hi, I liked your video... I was just a little nervous when you used the beveled square with the tip upwards, when usually one tends to lean our face and eyes towards the layout

@WoodAndShop 4 года назад

Yeah, it's like an 18th Century execution tool!

@ot9180 4 года назад

Hope everything’s good, it’s been a while.

@FrissOderLassEs 3 года назад

7:40 In my head I hear: 'I usually don't break the tip off that often, since I really like a pencil, but this is just for demonstration purposes"

@DeeegerD 4 года назад

You're the second guy I've watched use the step method to divide the tails. Wouldn't it just be quicker to measure and divide by the number you want, then set your divider to that measure?

@WoodAndShop 4 года назад

Nope, not for me! It really only takes a few seconds to do it this way.

@przybyla420 3 года назад

What about the half pins...

@DonsWoodies 10 месяцев назад

I don't understand why the end cuts are called half pins. The actual pins are smaller than the "half pins".

@MrAmisto 4 года назад

Wish you would show the other half of the job, creating the connecting piece, so if the measurements are kept the same, the other piece will fit? Does it not have to be cut in reverse? Why not do the rest of the video for inexperienced wood cutters. This leaves many questions...

@WoodAndShop 4 года назад

Because there are a ton of full tutorials on RU-vid on making the whole dovetail joint...including my channel and website. This specifically shows how to lay out the tails in a uniform manner.

@StrateLaceD 3 года назад

you dont show pin layout

@przybyla420 3 года назад

cut the tails, tidy them up with a chisel and then mark the pins directly from the tail board with a knife and then use a small square to make connect the line from on the end grain down to your baseline.