I’ve been trying to teach myself how to cut DTs on my TS. My problem is I can’t seem to get out all the gaps. (joints would work but aren’t pretty.) All the literature for using this method suggests starting with the tails.
I’m wondering if my problem stems from the difficulty of marking the pins from the tails on the end grain, which is Tage Frid’s reason for starting with the pins.
My questions: has anyone else had this problem? Suggestions on cures? Has anyone cut DTs on a TS starting with the pins?
Thanks in advance.
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See if you can locate a copy of Fine Woodworking #96, September/October, 1992. Mark Duginski had a clever idea for a jig to cut through DT's on a tablesaw. I tried it long ago and it worked just fine.
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Get Klaus's Video for $10 and I will guaranty you that if you watch it, he will have you cutting perfect dovetails in two hours. All you need is an $8 Stanley saw and a marking guage. I am not joking. The man is a genius, and has a great system.
Boris
"Sir, I may be drunk, but you're crazy, and I'll be sober tomorrow" -- WC Fields, "Its a Gift" 1934
There was a more recent article than the 1992 one on this, by Steve Latta, if I am remembering it right. The words tablesaw and dovetail should call it up in the index
Read it three times, but then I can't take my eyes off the guy carving bears with a chainsaw at the fair, either. You know, they make "cordless" saws for dovetails, too... :)
/jvs
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