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I’m a dyed-in-the-wool hand-made dovetail merchant and I’ve suddenly got a lot of drawers to do in one hit.
No problem there, except that I seem to remember reading an article of a jig or clamp arrangement that would help me considerably.
It appeared in one of the magazines some years ago (it may have been Good Woodworking or F&C – I cannot remember) featuring an article on making a clamp that held the sides of the drawers so that the vertical edges of the tails and pins could be pared accurately.
Normally I would clamp the sides down to the bench and do this vertically with a chisel.
It consisted of a pair of linked boards that clamped the work centrally with a horizontal lip to locate the chisel when paring. The work was held tight with an eccentric cam arrangement and the whole could be held upright in a vice. This gives the advantage of raising the work to a comfortable height.
I know it’s a long shot and I could probably come up with a design with a little experimentation, but does anyone remember the article and better still have a copy?
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I’m a dyed-in-the-wool hand-made dovetail merchant and I’ve suddenly got a lot of drawers to do in one hit.
No problem there, except that I seem to remember reading an article of a jig or clamp arrangement that would help me considerably.
It appeared in one of the magazines some years ago (it may have been Good Woodworking or F&C – I cannot remember) featuring an article on making a clamp that held the sides of the drawers so that the vertical edges of the tails and pins could be pared accurately.
Normally I would clamp the sides down to the bench and do this vertically with a chisel.
It consisted of a pair of linked boards that clamped the work centrally with a horizontal lip to locate the chisel when paring. The work was held tight with an eccentric cam arrangement and the whole could be held upright in a vice. This gives the advantage of raising the work to a comfortable height.
I know it’s a long shot and I could probably come up with a design with a little experimentation, but does anyone remember the article and better still have a copy?
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