Before I assembled and glued the dovetails I had to complete two things: Dado’s for the shelf The 30° angle for the lid. To keep the walls of the dado’s dead straight a batten was clamped across the sides to use as a sawing guide. Once the edges were cut to their required depths I […]

The previously cut tails are used to layout the pins, this helps eliminate any errors from measuring and ensures a “custom” fit for each pin. The shallow rabbet’s on the inside of the tail boards made this process easy as the lip created from the rabbet will register along the pin board and the whole […]