Use the dovetail jig to make beautiful and striking woodworking dovetail joints. The dovetail joint is very often associated with quality woodworking. It is both a structurally strong and aesthetically pleasing form of joinery. Dovetail joinery is often used in case construction and for drawer construction, specifically drawer fronts as it is a very strong, interlocking joint. Although dovetail jig plans are available to create dovetail joinery, most if not all of these dovetail jigs involve power tools. The hand cut dovetail offers unparalleled beauty so any dovetail layout is possible.
Dovetail joints are composed of mating pins and tails. In the photo below the tails are horizontally oriented in a dovetail jig. Creating dovetails by hand using a dovetail saw, chisels and marking tools, provides the flexibility to lay out tail and pin spacing more suitable to the drawer or case piece being constructed. The dovetail jig below is designed to enable you to accurately create hand cut dovetails. This jig can easily be built from the included plans and provides excellent accuracy, ease and precision in the creation of hand cut dovetails.
Typical tools include layout and marking tools, chisels, a dovetail saw, a mallet, etc. Laying out and marking are of utmost importance in creating precision dovetail joints. Accurate transfer of the tail layout to the pin board ultimately determines how tight and gap free a dovetail joint will be. Dovetail jig plan (step-by-step build) and (14) detailed computer designed illustrations (CAD) on how to make this dovetail jig are included with plan.
Includes a video sequence on how to use the Dovetail Jig to create through dovetails Through dovetails (20 mins.)
