For Yous Dovetail Degree Adjacent Week.

I'm pedagogy a three solar daytime dovetailing class at West Dean College adjacent calendar week in addition to I've been preparing the stock  ( the class is for the novel intake of diploma students on the twelvemonth long course) .
The box components (minus the lid) are shown above, planed in addition to dimensioned alongside a groove cutting for the base.

Here are all the sets cook to live on taped upwards in addition to packed away.

The starting fourth dimension projection nosotros volition brand is a dovetail alignment board, a real useful aid. These all needed preparing equally well, the coloured tapes hateful zero to a greater extent than than I'm running desperately brusk of masking tape!
With all the grooming needed, I sure don't create these courses for the money!

Here is my fix for routing the grooves for the box base. The walnut pin boards tin sack live on routed instantly though equally the groove falls inwards the waste, nonetheless the maple tail boards demand stopped cuts. I cause got a imitation struggle attached to my Veritas router tabular array in addition to I opened upwards this upwards alongside the T slots to furnish the stops at both ends.
The router you lot tin sack meet peeping out is a large Triton which although existence reasonably priced has proved to live on real good.

Here are the finished grooves using a 4mm cutter to a depth of 3.5mm.

This is the base of operations having the tongue cut using a Becksvoort designed rebate fleck alongside a 22 1/2 marking angle which gives a much nicer complete than a square edge. This has seen a lot of role over the final 10 years or so http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?p=45095&cat=1,46168,46178
It would live on easier to merely plane a 4mm base of operations for my boxes but this 10mm stock (Indian rosewood) helps add together to a greater extent than or less weight to residuum the pivoting lid. Note the sprung arm which keeps the stock apartment on the tabular array for an fifty-fifty width tongue without getting your hands likewise almost the cutter.

H5N1 moving painting of what the students volition live on making, if everything goes to plan!

This is my latest version of the grip pattern which I actually like. H5N1 department of the lid extends through the forepart of the box alongside a gently protruding crimp in addition to a tapering chamfer on the laissez passer on off edge. It takes fourth dimension to instruct a overnice tight tally but worth it.

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