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It's how the original was. Small advantage in that you can attach a knob more solidly with a longer glued-in joint pin.

Those drawer fronts are unusual Jacob, at first I wondered why you had used lap Dovetails when you were putting a false front on top...

It when you place the two faces of a board to be edge jointed and plane both at the same time. The theory being that any tilt left or...

Yes but if they aren’t at 90 degrees as soon as you cramp them they will slide out of being flush. And as I and Jacob said just pressing...

That sounds like it was a fascinating experience Jacob, real back to basics stuff, my parents early Victorian Chippendale chairs were...

If you dip say 1mm along the length of doubled up boards being "match"planed, when you turn them to meet the gap will be 2mm. If the dip...

I know @Jacob and @Sgian Dubh produce good work, the latter probably has more experience and knowledge than the rest of us put together...

I joint with one in the vice and fit the next one to it. I aim for a hollow only to the extent that the top board won't pivot on a high...

With "match planing" there is no reference to work off of, only the sole of the plane and that's not enough to insure acceptable results...

Jacob, I do hope you spotted my contribution to that thread, no 59. I've tried it, match planing that is, and it's not a good technique...

So you use your "match planing" technique a lot then? No problems? What was the last thing you made?

Seems like a perfectly reasonable question to me?

That's a "nothing" then! :ROFLMAO:

Actually the term "match planing" doesn't crop up in the older books at all. It's newish. Joyce and Ellis talk of "matched joints" or...

Axminster have 10-ish different ones for sale, do your homework though, I bought one from them 10 years ago and was disappointed with...