Fine Woodworking Show Us Your Drawers Contest

Advanced Dovetail Box

comments (9) December 30th, 2010 in Reader's Gallery

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Advanced dovetail box. White oak sides, other maple. I expect more contrast. Hand cut dovetail and handplaned. This advanced dovetail takes much more time than i expected. And for smaller dovetails i need 1/16 inch wide chisel.


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Rich67 Rich67 writes: Thats great work, wow. Have to say that i dont think i'd want to spend that much time on something. I find a lot of the work i've put into items is ignored by the general family and friends. They just dont appreciate the skill level required. I usually get ' o thats nice ' .
I hope you leave it in a prominent place...

All the same, nice work ....
Posted: 4:50 am on January 18th

harfield harfield writes: I agree with Rick H. Your project is clearly the best, and makes the most sense as a dovetail exercise. I also think the contrast is just fine, and appreciate the difficulty of forming clean pins in white oak. If you win, maybe you can sell the Leigh jig, and buy some additional hand tools.
Posted: 2:44 pm on January 13th

Rick H. Rick H. writes: Beautiful houndstooth dovetails! Much skill involved in their planning and execution. Considering four of the six dovetail projects are hand made, it's ironic that the prize is a dovetail jig for a router.
Posted: 7:09 am on January 11th

herdsman herdsman writes: All the pieces shown are very good and all for very different reasons, however, this particular piece, although not eye catching because of shape or wood types is the piece I shall vote for. The craftsmanship is fantastic and has been executed with a great deal of skill and patience resulting in a very beautiful dovetailed box.

Fantastic
Posted: 1:39 pm on January 10th

1stwoodstone_man 1stwoodstone_man writes: To much work to do ,I would never spend that much time on that kind of work.
Posted: 11:26 pm on January 8th

Besa25md Besa25md writes: Impressive! Lots of work involved here. I admire the patience...
Posted: 5:44 pm on January 8th

Stew_wood Stew_wood writes: Great work. Love the hand-cut dovetails. Isn't hand-cut the focus of the contest??
Posted: 6:02 am on January 8th

oh2dovetail oh2dovetail writes: Looks great! A lot of layout, sawing and chiseling ... and many opportunities to remove the wrong "waste". Excellent job!

It looks to me like you could make your baselines for the two smaller sets of pins a little bit deeper, still get the same impressive effect and make it a little easier on the chiseling. Although if you have the 1/16" chisel now, maybe that isn't an issue.

Great work.
Posted: 11:58 am on December 31st

Tom_the_Toolmaker Tom_the_Toolmaker writes: Excellent job! Looks fantastic
Posted: 2:36 am on December 31st

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