Secret Hidden Dovetal Tutorial
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Haven't been around in a while. Been busy with health issues which are still keeping me out of my shop, and helping set up and moderate a new wood working forum. It is a totally donation driven non-commercial place, so I hope the mod here don't mind me putting in a plug for it. It is called World of Wood and the url is http://www.worldofwoodforum.com/vb/. If this is not kosher, mods are welcome to cut out the plug.
Anyway, a few years back I made a case for some of my sensitive measuring tools and used that opportunity to try making Secret Hidden Dovetails. Showed some pics of the box in partially assembled and fully assembled view on the forum and folks about the hidden DTs. Well I didn't have any step by step pictures when I made them, so I did a SU, exported some stills and wrote up the tutorial. Today I added scenes to the skippy and will try to post it here if I can remember how.
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Hi Joe, sorry to hear you've been having health problems but it's good to see you around.
So I had a look at your SKp file and I have a question or two. Are there supposed to be gaps inside the joint? See Scene 1 in the attached. It is the final components you drew in your tutorial. the faces marked in red don't touch faces in the corresponding component.
I drew my own version of secret or hidden dovetails. All of the faces in the joint on one part contact faces on the other one. Since one side of the joint is made from the other, mine must fit correctly. Is that what you did?
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Actually, that is the way the joint was cut in the book I have on that covers them. I think it was an expedient by the old timers to speed things up. There is plenty of contact with the parts of the DT that hold the joint together to add the sturdiness they were looking for.
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I see. It's different from the materials I've seen but I suppose it would be faster.
This is the way I learned to do them.
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