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Dovetails

06 April

Video: How to Hand Cut Compound Angled Dovetails

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Joinery, Videos
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One of my subscribers asked a question about making compound angled dovetails. These are actually just as easy to saw out as dovetails on square corners. The difficulty is in laying out and making the compound angled butt joint that is necessary to make before laying out the dovetails. In this video I go over the process for laying out the compound angled butt joint and then cutting the subsequent dovetails.

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Hand Tools & Techniques Podcast
03 June

HTT050 – “Non-traditional” Projects

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Audio
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On today’s show, I discuss dovetail orientation for casework, making a mortise across the grain of a board, small smoothing planes, and “non-traditional” projects.

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Hand Tools & Techniques Podcast
14 May

HTT049 – Shellac Basics

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
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On today’s show, I discuss dovetail pin to tail ratio, leaving space for seasonal expansion between case back boards, and some basics on using shellac.

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Hand Tools & Techniques Podcast
13 March

HTT045 – The Hand Tools I Wouldn’t Be Without

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Audio
  • Comments 1 comment

On today’s show, I discuss hand saw handle size, inexpensive hand tool friendly woods, hiding a rabbet or groove in the bottom of a dovetailed box, replacing marking gauge pins, and hand tools that I wouldn’t be without in my kit.

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Hand Tools & Techniques Podcast
09 January

HTT041 – Talking Dovetails

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Audio
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On today’s show, I discuss making a flag case, maintaining a wax finish, saw vises, non-yellowing finishes, and dovetailing details.

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Hand Tools & Techniques Podcast
26 September

HTT035 – Sliding Dovetails

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Audio
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On today’s show, I discuss  paring yellow pine end grain, using cambered irons to square board edges, making moldings with a combination plane, more on reference surfaces, and sliding dovetails.

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Hand Tools & Techniques Podcast
27 June

HTT029 – Revisiting Old Projects

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Audio
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On today’s show, I discuss pins first dovetail layout, fishtail chisels, setting up a toothing plane, miter boxes, beginner projects, and lessons learned from revisiting old projects.

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Hand Tools & Techniques Podcast
01 June

HTT027 – Experimental Archaeology

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Audio
  • Comments 2 comments

On today’s show, I discuss finishing both sides of a board, book matching veneer, cooper’s jointer planes, workbench designs, pins vs. tails, hand tool jigs, boring straight with a brace and bit, and experimenting with historical practices in your shop.

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Hand Tools & Techniques Podcast
20 April

HTT024 – Light It Up

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Audio
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On today’s show, I discuss wood choices for tool boxes, traditional joinery methods for joining the corners of casework, dovetailing the corners of a box with angled sides, and lighting in the workshop.

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Hand Tools & Techniques Podcast
25 April

HTT002 – Hand Tools on a Budget

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Audio
  • Comments 2 comments

On today’s show, I discuss hiding grooves in dovetailed drawers, building a period style overlay drawer with a thumbnail molding, black stains on wood, modifying basic joinery for special situations, and starting out with hand tools on a limited budget.

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Planing a dado
20 April

Efficiency with Hand Tools – Joinery

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Joinery, News & Ramblings
  • Comments 4 comments

How does the joinery you choose to use to assemble your projects impact your ability to be efficient with your hand tools?

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