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   BenM | Jan 31, 2005 09:22pm | #1

   FWW had an article on this in Issue 83 (Jul/Aug 1990), by Jacques Berger.  It has been reprinted in one of Taunton's Best of Fine Woodworking series of books.

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   joinerswork | Feb 01, 2005 12:03am | #2

   Wood,

   Don't know about lovetails, but would recommend against love handles for lifting the lid;-))

   Cheers,

   Ray

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   TimLoupe | Feb 01, 2005 08:34am | #3

   Funny

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   eddiefromAustralia | Feb 01, 2005 12:04pm | #4

   wb,

   use a forstner bit to cut the pin sockets first, then raw lines at a tangent to the hole, cut and pare back to the adge of the hole.

   use a fine scalpel to transfer the profile from the pin sockets to the endgrain of the other board, cut these as normal, and finish up paring out the 'v' at the top of the heart.

   they're not difficult but fiddly.

   If I get a chance, I'll cut you a sample one at work tomorrow - usually takes about 5 min per pin.

   Cheers,

   eddie

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   har | Feb 02, 2005 05:34am | #7

   Thanks Eddie for the reply. I guess the most critical part is getting all the pins marked exactly. I figure the sides will be 20 inches high, so a lovetail 1" in from the top and bottom and every 4.5" in between, making a total of 5 on each side. I have cut a few practice lovetails in 3/4" material (of which I am using).
   Doing a single one is no problem, but cutting 3 on a board is definitely a challenge to get the pins to fit/line-up with the pin sockets and keeping everything square.
   You are right though; it is a lot of finicky work and time consuming, as it is mostly handwork. But the results are definitely worth it.
   Howard

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   SawdustSteve | Feb 01, 2005 05:47pm | #5

   Try this link: http://us.oak-park.com/catalogue.html?list=RTS-LDS-

   It is Oak Park (Router workshop) people. They make router patterns for heart-shaped dovetails.
   If the link fails, go to http://www.oak-park.com and look for router patterns. The site is a bit confusing but they have lots of router goodied.
   SawdustSteve

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   parrothead | Feb 01, 2005 06:57pm | #6

   Woodbutcher, a couple of weeks ago I seen "heart dovetail" templates at the Wood Working show in Indy. The company was Woodline USA and the product was called Route-R-Joint Percision Dovetail Joinery System  Here is a link to their website, if you scroll to the bottom you can see the dovetails. Kind of expense though.

   http://www.woodline.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=690

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