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I’ve been talking about them so might as well show two practice pieces I did on my course. The first one is through dovetails made of pine. Being a soft wood, it’s more forgiving because you can make the joint tighter and it’ll still in. The second has more complexity being a half-blind dovetail joint but also because it is in hardwoods: cherry and maple. Another difficulty is the closeness and smallness of the tails and pins. This is an exact replica of how the dovetails will be on my drawers for my pen cabinet project. The piece is 1 and 1/4 inch high with two dovetails in them. That’s gonna take some time to do 7 drawers has this joint is done twice per each drawer. These examples are not perfect but very acceptable being my first hand cut dovetail joints.

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