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SLIDING DOVETAILS
Chapter 16D4R Pro User Guide
16-19 Adjust and set the finger assembly
➀
so it is clear that the
routed tail
➁
will be too large for the slot.
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Rout one side of the test tail board.
Make one light pass from right to left (climb
routing). Make sure you control it firmly, because it is driven in
this direction by the bit. Only the tip of the bit should be cut-
ting on the first cut (see inset). This back or climb routing leaves
a very clean shoulder in side grain.
16-21 Finish left to right, with the guidebush touching the
fence.
16-22 Turn the test tail board around in the jig and rout the
other side as above.
16-23 Test the joint for fit. The tail should be too big. If it is
too small, adjust the finger assembly outward by at least half the
difference and rout another test tail on the other end of this test
board.
16-24 If the tail
➁
is too big, move the finger assembly
➀
toward
the jig by half the amount the tail is too big. Rout the same test board
again; keep adjusting and testing until a good fit.Use trial and error each
time. It doesn’t take long, and you get a good fit. For fine fit adjustment
with the e-Bush see 16-25.
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