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'perfectly imperfect' Great idea. Unique. Fred

It's not oak

Greetings Fred

Good evening Bingy man and welcome to the forum

Sorry for the delay in posting photographs of my dovetail templates. Moving house is rather busy. The inspiration for what I call my ‘dovetail square’ came from attending a dovetailing course with David Charlesworth over 20 years ago. On the course, we used the bandsaw to cut the ‘tails’...

That's a beautiful box (y)

I have also experienced excellent service from Workshop Heaven

@Yojevol Really enjoying this thank you. Amazing.

Try the 'ruler trick ' to form a micro bevel. Hope that helps.

@Jameshow . Thank you

@Derek Cohen (Perth Oz) , Thank you.

@JobandKnock . Thank you.

@jcassidy . Thank you. I found the same with the two templates I made. (Coming soon)

@thetyreman Thank you. I'll post images of mine in the next few days when I'm back on my computer.

Stunningly beautiful.

@thetyreman . I would be very interested in seeing a photo of your dovetail template if you are happy posting one

Just4Fun. Thanks for that. I’m loving this thread. What a like about this thread is Kaizen123 has had input from a number of people who have been very helpful. Donkeys years ago I was taught by a brilliant woodwork teacher, Don Hall who trained at Loughborough College of Education and with...

Hi Kaizen. I have never used the masking tape method. I mark the shape of the tails with a Marking knife and dovetail template. I try and make the depth of the knife cut around 1/2 mm. (I will return to this again later in the marking out process) I use a pencil to mark the waste part of the...

Hi Kaizen 123 I personally Mark my tails and pins using a Marking knife. I saw an excellent marking knife and dovetail template in one of your photos. Hope this helps. Cheers Fred

Beautiful