For You Lot Curved Dovetail Box.

Having latterly made a box amongst angled dovetails I decided to convey a larn at curved dovetails, non therefore easy!

The woods are birds optic maple in addition to Brazilian mahogany.

The base of operations is padded amongst a lining of dark-green pig suede.

The starting indicate was to put out the radius of the dovetails in addition to cause upward one's hear on their size. This agency the thickness of the slice for the pins could live on established equally good equally the publish of dovetails.
It was equally good a useful practice equally it showed that the normal halt pins would convey looked real chunky. So instead of having one-half pins on the halt I went for five full pins which looked much better.

In gild to larn matching curves on the pins in addition to tails I 'assembled' the box using double sided record in addition to therefore marked out the radius from the template above. It was of import to larn both ends level in addition to square.

The effect subsequently roughing on the ring saw in addition to smoothing on the disc sander. I used a fine 220 grit disc which was a piffling slower but much less risky in addition to it left a real fine finish. The parts were all marked upward amongst coloured dots earlier separating carefully amongst spreader clamps.

I had initially expected to role the side of my cutting approximate designed for curves but this lost it's back upward earlier reaching either halt therefore was no good. Instead I had to cause upward one's hear on the depth in addition to therefore role the curved slice equally a template in addition to vice versa for the pins, non ideal!

Here is a tail board marked out in addition to therefore dovetails cut. The bottom of the tails was merely cutting foursquare rather than endeavor to follow the plication over such a curt distance. Doing the same to the pins gave a expert fit inward the end.

Here is a pivot board which looks a flake ungainly, although equally y'all tin run across shape the commencement pictures it looks much amend when assembled. Maintaining a apartment interior human face upward was essential equally a reference surface and keeps the interior of the box prissy in addition to square.
I actually similar the human face of this box although it showed me the postulate to live on dead accurate amongst my dovetail spacing equally good equally the angles, rather than eyeballing it. I volition live on devising a jig which volition enable me to accomplish this to a greater extent than accurately on the adjacent box.

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