Can I make dovetails without a router jig?

[Null]

Lads,

I have a router and a dovetail bit which I want to use to make some dovetail
joints. I don't have a dovetail jig for my router. Can I still make the
joints with the router? And does anybody have any tips on how to do this
neatly?

Thankyou heaps,

Null.

[Hank Metz]

Check out this page, click on "Cyborg Dovetails".
http://www.ameritech.net/users/hankm/methodmenu.htm

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Null <non...@domain.net> wrote in message
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[JLucas ILS]

Null,
You might be interested in the Stots Template Master...with it you can make
many different and useful dovetail jigs, There is a section on my site:
www.woodshopdemos.com

[mike hide]

all younee is a fine cut saw and a bloody chisel,cut the tails at 6
degrees ,if you do enough of them you will do them better [no rounded
holes ]and in the end just as quick.
Do it right and they will look like sharp little darts ,something the
dovetail jigs and routers cannot do ...mjh

[Null]

Thanks for the advice Mike. Could you tell me how I mark them out? I'm new
at this.

Thanyou,

Null.

mike hide <mike...@atl.mediaone.net> wrote in message
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[Null]

Thanks for that John. I quite like the look of that template and what it can
do!!!

Thanks again,

Null.

JLucas ILS <jluc...@aol.com> wrote in message
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[Null]

I have a coping saw and chisels. I would love to be able to do them by hand.

Null.

mike hide <mike...@atl.mediaone.net> wrote in message
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> On 07 May 2000 21:09:23 GMT, jluc...@aol.com (JLucas ILS) wrote:
>

> >Null,
> > You might be interested in the Stots Template Master...with it you can
make
> >many different and useful dovetail jigs, There is a section on my site:
> >www.woodshopdemos.com
>

[Null]

Thankyou Hank. That looks terrific. I like the way they make the most of all
the stuff I already have.

Null.

Hank Metz <ha...@ameritech.net> wrote in message
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[Ralph Lindberg & Ellen Winnie]

In article <g%nR4.13966$v85....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, "Null"
<non...@domain.net> wrote:

> Thanks for the advice Mike. Could you tell me how I mark them out? I'm
> new at this.

The best thing I ever saw was a brass template the you used a sharp
knife or pencil with. Check any catalog that has lots of hand
woodworking tools.
Oh yes, I have never tried to cut dove tails with a coping saw (your
other post) and doubt I could cut a straight enough line with one. I
suggest getting a dove tail saw. Oh yes, some scrap wood, and practice,
practice, practice...
For production, the Katie jig and two router tables, one with the dove
and one with the straight bit (but that would cost a lot of $$$, start
with the saw)

--
Ralph Lindberg personal email n7...@amsat.org
RV and Camping FAQ http://kendaco.telebyte.com/rlindber/rv
If Windows is the answer I would really like to know what the question is

[Null]

Thanks Ralph.

Null.

Ralph Lindberg & Ellen Winnie <rlin...@kendaco.telebyte.com> wrote in
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[Geoff]

My whole woodworking career started with wanting to make a CD drawer and I
concluded that dovetailing was the way to go because I wanted strength.

I asked and was told to buy:

1 A dovetail saw
2 A set of chisels
3 A marking gauge
4 Frank Klausz' videotape "Dovetail a Drawer"

Indespensible to have the tape. It is the best $18 or so you can spend. He
gives you a system that works very well, step by step. And the dovetailing ?
A ton of fun to do by hand.

Of course my efforts are not furniture grade, and in the beginning more like
1st grade. but through practie and more practice (ie unsuccesful attempts) I
am up to about 5th grade. The first joint I made that actually fit together
I have saved and it sits on a ledge in my workshop as a memento.

Oh, and the drawer works great :)

Hope this helps,

Geoff

Null <non...@domain.net> wrote in message

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> Thanks for that John. I quite like the look of that template and what it
can
> do!!!
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Null.
>
>
> JLucas ILS <jluc...@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:20000507170923...@ng-fk1.aol.com...

[Roy Smith]

"Geoff" <gwc...@idt.net> wrote:
> Of course my efforts are not furniture grade, and in the beginning more like
> 1st grade. but through practie and more practice (ie unsuccesful attempts) I
> am up to about 5th grade. The first joint I made that actually fit together
> I have saved and it sits on a ledge in my workshop as a memento.

I've never done a dovetail, but I figure doing a dovetail by hand is one of the
rights of passage in woodworking, sort of like cutting a thread on a lathe is to
metalworking.

I've still got on my desk a bunch of lathe-cut threads in various bits of brass
stock from when I learned how to do it. One is engraved by my mentor, "Roy's
first good thread, Jan 13 - 1983" and signed by him. Not only makes a great
conversation piece, but gives me real joy every time I look at it.

I figure when I get around to learning to hand-cut dovetails, it'll be the same
thing.

--
Roy Smith <r...@popmail.med.nyu.edu>
New York University School of Medicine

[Null]

I think you're right. So many skills are becoming "things of the past" these
days. When I'm heaps older and have grandchildren I'm sure it would impress
them :)
Null.

Roy Smith <r...@popmail.med.nyu.edu> wrote in message
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[Null]

Thanks for your advice MIke. I have been doing some today and it is pretty
cool. I found some step by step instructions and am using tools I already
owned.

Null.

mike hide <mike...@atl.mediaone.net> wrote in message
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> On 07 May 2000 21:09:23 GMT, jluc...@aol.com (JLucas ILS) wrote:
>

> >Null,
> > You might be interested in the Stots Template Master...with it you can
make
> >many different and useful dovetail jigs, There is a section on my site:
> >www.woodshopdemos.com
>