Woodworker's Journal winter-2010, страница 16

Dovetailing with a Router and Jig

Our author shows how to cut both

half-blind and through dovetails with a router and two common styles of dovetailing jigs.

By Sandor Nagyszalanciy

Dovetailing was once purely a hand-tool endeavor. Now, routers and an increasing variety of jigs have transformed dovetailing into a machine operation. With patience and attention to details, you can turn out perfectly fitting, beautiful joints just like the masters did

Among the many different joint variations you can cut with your router, dovetails are certainly fair game. Cutting either half-blind or through dovetails will require a

jig outfitted with a pair of rigid templates or a set of moveable guide fingers. There are dozens of these commercial jigs from which to choose. Some jigs will cut both styles of dovetails by

switching from templates to guide fingers. Other jigs are dedicated to one style of dovetail only. Regardless, you can usually buy a variety of templates or guide fingers to cut dovetails of

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