Mike Pekovich was lately offered with a design choice that may in the end make joinery a lot trickier, given the orientation of the dovetails. He in the end determined in favor of the aesthetics dictating his strategy, and with that got here a number of ingenious options for work holding, making a safe technique to reference the tail board to the pin board for transferring marks, after which securely holding the tail board in place for sawing.
Securing the pin board
Step one is securing the tall pin board. Mike used a moxon vise so as to add 4 inches of clamping top to the highest of the case, whereas additionally making use of even clamping strain the total width of the piece. For additional safety, Mike added two braces, made out of 2″x8″ inch boards with 45-degree angles minimize on both aspect and secured collectively on each ends with a cleat. The bottom of the brace is secured to the bench with screws and the cleat that holds the board to the cleat clamped in place. This prevents any flex within the board whereas sawing and chiseling. Mike made a fast platform to face on, which places him at a extra comfy working top for sawing and chiseling.
Holding the tail board in place.
Mike then made a help to carry the tail piece in place for transferring the strains to the pin board. It’s merely MDF large sufficient to help the tail piece, secured to a cleat that clamps in opposition to the pin board, with a few brackets to help the burden. He additionally provides a shallow rabbet to the within of the tail board, which offers constructive registration for aligning the tail board to the pin board. As a result of dimension of the piece, he chooses to clamp every part in place earlier than transferring the strains.
Cleansing up the shoulders
As soon as Mike has minimize and coped out the waste for the pins, he makes use of one other store made jig, repurposed from an previous router desk fence, as a help for routing away a clear shoulder. to align this jig correctly, he easy makes use of two spring clamps to affix a bit of MDF to the floor, as one other constructive registration level for setting the jig in place.
All this effort, although time consuming, makes chopping the remainder of dovetails on the case go far more effectively. What’s left is a design choice that can complement the by means of tenons that will likely be uncovered on the perimeters of the case. As Mike says ” I don’t let making one thing simpler drive the way in which I make one thing.”
Episode 1: Simpler By Dovetails
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Extra Than One Option to Reduce a Dovetail
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