Dovetail Joints

with Matt Kenney

Learn how to cut better, faster through-dovetails using your tablesaw and a standard rip blade

by Michael Pekovich, Greg Brown, Garrett Hack, Will Neptune, Thomas McKenna

Straight from the pros, five quick and easy fixes for joinery mistakes. If you find yourself midway through a piece of furniture and find yourself with a gappy ...

by Jonathan Binzen

Take an inside look at the unorthodox combination of joints Aled Lewis uses in his "Wish Desk."...

by Jonathan Binzen

Aled Lewis's "Wish Desk" uses a joinery system that combines splines, slip tenons, and a segmented sliding dovetail. The wishbone-shaped legs become part of the ...

by Gregory Paolini

Get the look of hand-cut dovetails with the accuracy and ease of machinery, without a router or a dovetail jig. This method, explained by Gregory Paolini, uses ...

by John Tetreault

Whether it comes from an old barn, an old piece of furniture, or somewhere else, reclaimed wood can lend your projects a character and feel vastly different from ...

by John Mihalick

by Brian Roy

Say you are making a jewelry box with curved sides. Because both pieces are curved across their width, the ends are also curved. With no straight edges to register ...

by Christian Becksvoort

by Steve Brown

Although many woodworkers use marking knives and gauges to cut layout lines, students at North Bennet Street School learn to use a pencil when laying out dovetails ...

by Clark Kellogg

"One size fits all" hand tools didn't offer the precision and control Clark Kellogg needed to lay out and cut dovetails to his own satisfaction, so he made a set ...

by Stephen Hammer

Learn Stephen Hammer's technique for cutting dovetail joints with a bandsaw and a router. It’s the best of both worlds, yielding the refined look of a hand-cut ...

by Christian Becksvoort

by Garrett Hack

by Anissa Kapsales

Trevor Hadden’s apprenticeship with Michael Cullen not only yielded the woodworking knowledge and skills Hadden needed to go it on his own, but it also culminated ...