Laying out and Cutting the Dovetails

Purchase the plans for this project: https://www.simplecovestore.com/product/dovetailed-blanket-chest/
To begin I use two sets of dividers to layout the dovetails. I set the first set of dividers to 3/4" for the half pins. Since this is a large case, I want the half pins to be larger to make sure that when I glue this chest together they wont break. The second set of dividers is used to mark the distance of one full tail and one full pin. I felt like 1 11/16" gave me the right number of tails and they were a good size.
Next up I use my dovetail marker to mark the tails and begin cutting them with my pull saw. After all of the tails were cut, I used my bow saw to remove the pin waste, leaving about 1/8" of waste above my scribe line.
Using a chisel I slowly chop away the waste until I have about 1/16" of waste in front of my scribe line. I place the chisel in the scribe line and tilt it just slightly off of 90 degrees and chisel away the waste. I only go down about half way, flip the board over and then remove the rest of the waste.
I repeat these same steps for the pin boards.
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Very nice and simple instructions Sean! Thanks for all the hard work!
You're welcome Donny! Thanks for watching!
@DonnyCarter said:Great tutorial Sean! Almost make me want to start doing them by hand again....
Thanks for watching/commenting Guy! That makes one of us because i'm taking a break from cutting them after this project lol. I want to go back to machine cutting the joinery lol.
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