I know your other content is very popular but as a intermediate woodworker I’m stoked for you getting back in the shop. Hope to see some furniture/projects!
I am a retired Joiner and woodwork Therapist. My client/patients were always delighted when they made their first dovetailed box, for whatever purpose. You are a first rate tutor Matt, and I wish you well......
Been loving your big project series for the house and barn, but do really miss these pro tips, jigs, and other simple shop content. Great camera work on catching different perspectives of the process. Tedious, I'm sure, but worth it. Thanks!
I'm impressed you were able to squeeze a 20 min video out of a flat scrap triangle!! all jokes aside I love your content brother keep up the good work ;)
Mahogany is my favorite wood. Love the shimmer it has, its color, the grain,it’s hardness, everything about it. Can’t believe you’ve never worked with it.
I love the not so subtle nod to the know-it-alls. I’ve been watching a few of the old episodes of New Yankee Workshop now that they’re on the RU-vids and I can’t help but think “wow, what if Norm had to deal with a comment section?” 😂
Who knew you did woodworking? It's been so long. New subs must only know you as a sawyer of logs, a builder of barns and additions and a blower of snow. Cheers
Thanks for showing this! My late Dad always wanted to make dove-tail joints and now I understand why. I will try this with his old Craftsman band saw I have kept in operating condition and I bet he would have really enjoyed watching your videos if there had been internet and You Tube 60 years ago I sure do!
Love it. A couple of years ago I cut all of the parts to make a machinist's chest, but never finished it because the sheer number of dovetails was overwhelming. Maybe making this jig will motivate me to finish the chest.
I'm a first timer of your videos. This is such a beautiful simple little jig, thanks for sharing. An added bonus would be a stop clamped to the fence for consistent depth to the joint. Thanks again.
Very interesting video Matt, a woodshop teacher could learn some lessons from you... You covered making a jig and cutting the tails very well, I just wish you finished up and showed how you cut the pins and final assembly..
Love your teaching method. I always thought dove tails were very difficult without one of those fancy jigs and a router. Now I see there are many ways to make a dovetail and as you point out, there is no wrong way to make one. Kinda like drinking good bourbon... neat. rocks, splash of water you drink it however you like it.
Good to have ya back in the shop, #MassiveMatt! Wild multi-camera editing work there! 😉 Excellent exhibition of a tool I will need in the near future! Thanks!
My wife and I make similar woodworking projects on our channel. We wish we had a shop like yours. We made a laptop desk with dovetail joinery but we used a jig. We are a very small channel. we will appreciate it if you can give us some pointers.
This is one of those "shoulda had a v8" moments hehe. I love it. It happens all throughout life, but I've noticed for me, construction/carpentry type tricks, especially with wood/measurements it happens all the time. Where you can't conceive something until you've seen it. We all have our own "obvious" things that just clicked naturally from experiences, but with jigs I often laugh at how I didn't think of that
Matt thank you for your video. Until now I have given up on “hand cut” dovetails. I like your simple jig and your instructions. Heading out to the shop to try your method. Thank you Scott
Add a vertical to the fence side and a stop as you had, clamp it to the fence in the appropriate location so that as you slide the timber past the jig, the bandsaw blade will consistently cut the same depth
I just used this method for a commissioned piece, and it worked great. The only alterations I made were: It was on 16-in wide boards, so I was able to get five of the fence setups done as shown, and for the other three I had to put the block on the other end of the tapered piece. I added sandpaper to the mating edge of the jig to help keep it steady. I used a spare piece of wood to lay out the dovetails and get the fence setup each time, since there was some trial and error. And I added a stop clamped to the table on the back side of the blade so I wouldn't cut past my baseline. Michael Fortune demonstrated that in Fine Woodworking issue 270. He has a pretty extensive article on bandsaw dovetails, but I like the simplicity of Matt's jig.
Great video Matt, it’s great to see how others go about making dovetails in the most efficient way, I tend to use a router with a fence and free hand route the tails , I’ve also done a video how I go about it over on my channel!
i appreciate you renamed your thicknesser propery, its as thicknesser not a planer, like the "jointer" is actually a surface plane or surfacer. That shit does my head in lol
I’ve seen this suggestion before from other contributors, but your work is interesting and makes me smile, so I watched this again. It made me think that, if the wedge for the tails and two wedges for pins ramp were made identical, the angles should match very well. Yes?
That may be the simplest and most useful jig ever. Cut an angle that's close to what you want, then screw a scrap on the end to be cut off to length. Then, the simple usefulness of it in making repeatable cuts is fantastic. I also appreciate that you stress how much 'close is good enough' because you use your results to mark out further steps.
Simple but brilliant! Love these “why didn’t I think of that” method. I think a fence jig on tablesaw would be great with a couple of clamps for safety. Keep up the great work!
Matt welcome back!! Lol, i was entertained by the house and industrial building but so glad to see you back woodworking. I haven't messed around with dovetails but not i feel inspired to give it a try this way.
Your point about keeping things fresh and interesting by means of diverse ways of creating a DT joint is totally valid. Boston Celtics Legend Larry Bird would switch back and forth from right hand to left hand shooting as a means of stimulating his best efforts per his own revelation……
I love Rob Cosman’s technique but I may never get the muscle memory to assemble dovetails off the saw, but it is a goal. In the meantime, I really enjoy seeing these methods going back to David Marks. Don’t recall if Norm ever did it like this. Thanks!!
Great info. I've been wanting to do some "hand cut dovetails" for some time but it just seems to require great precision. I will have to try this method. BTW all that camera angle shot swapping made me just a bit dizzy but great cinematography.
Thanks for sharing this. Very nice 'hybrid' technique to get these done efficiently. Also, DID YOU KNOW your logo is DOVETAILS? I've been watching you for years YEARS and I just noticed this! OMG.
I recall seeing very old chests etc which has ornate dovetails which were curved. Cabinet makers would have their own brass jigs which were really unique to each man.
🤯 I blown away- you’ve never worked with Mahogany. Not like the are forests of Honduran mahogany in Minnesota though… with your skill set you will get along famously if yo can find any reasonably priced. Happy woodworking
