Possible to make dovetails without a jig?

[stryped]

[dadiOH]

There is more than one type/design for drawers, you know. Relatively few (I would guess) have sides chock-a-block to the fronts. Certainly not if metal slides are used on the sides.

Even with chock-a-block sides and fronts one could use a sliding dovetail if you...

1. use fat sides and/or narrow pins;

1. are careful & precise.

dadiOH _____________

stryped wrote:

[Dave Jackson]

You CAN make sliding dovetails with just the bit and a router table. Maybe not the conventional ones your thinking of, but hold well just the ame. --dave

[Odinn]

On 2/22/2006 10:33 AM stryped mumbled something about the following:

Why do you keep doing th x-no-archive:yes crap? Why do you not want it archived? Are you afraid of your questions coming back to haunt you? Too late, enough of us quoted it, and everyone can see that you keep asking all these questions and not wanting them archived.

[Odinn]

On 2/22/2006 5:19 PM dadiOH mumbled something about the following:

Sheesh, both of you top posting make it difficult to read Just read the quoted above, and it is all friggin backwards.

[Blocklayer]

try this online dovetail template generator

[Gordon Airporte]

Rumor is that Lee Valley has theirs in the prototype phase. I'd wait a little before getting one.

[mikeband]

Use your router to cut either blind or thru cuts in the drawer face. Use the face cuts as a template to mark the side peices and cut them by hand.