All the rest of the templates
and cutters are designed for
either box joints or dowel
joints. We will cover these
later in the manual.
For now, let’s concentrate
on building your perfect
drawer with half-blind
dovetail joints in under
five minutes.
These are the most commonly
used dovetail joints for
drawers and boxes and are
also quite useful for cabinet
carcasses.
Once you master half-blind
dovetails and consistently
produce a perfect drawer in
under five minutes, then you
can branch out to the other
types of joints as you wish.
Don’t make this
mistake
Just don’t make the mistake I see
first time users of dovetail jigs
make all the time. They pull their
new purchase out of the box, do a
cursory glance through the jig
manufacturers manual and start
butchering wood. They cut a few
poor half-blind dovetail joints,
then several really poor through
dovetail joints and maybe an ill-
fitting box joint or two. When
they see the mayhem they have
created, they usually give up in
frustration. Stay with the half-
blind dovetail joint until it
becomes almost automatic for
you. Then, and only then, branch
out to also learn to cut the other
types of joints.
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