Dovetail Joints Confusion

[dovetail2007]

Hi Guys,
I'm a long term lurker, and a new joiner
First of all, a quick intro to me:
My name's Sam, I'm 15, and I've been into woodworking for 3years.
I have been allocated just over half the family shed, which is concrete built and has power (sockets and fluorescent tube)
This works fine for me.
I also have free run of the garage (attached to shed) to use when I like, but this has to be cleared at night when the car gets priority

My tools include:
Router+Table
Compound Mitre Saw
Drill
Nailer
Jigsaw
Sander
+ Lots of Hand tools

Anyway, that's enough about me - onto the work!

I am in the process of trying to design a dovetail jig for the router table (similar to the gifkin one) but having spent the day using Sketchup, I have throroughly confused myself as to what a dovetail even looks like!!
I would be very thankful if you could look at the image below and tell me if this is right. If it is, then I shall go ahead and design+make the jig for it.

Thanks,

Sam

 

[Slim]

Welcome Sam

I think you have your dovetails back to front.

Should look like this

 

[Waka]

Sam

Welcome to the forum, unfortunaely your first post has been spammed by the moderators, this will be sorted out shortly.

 

[dovetail2007]

Thanks for the "Hi"s
There was me thinking I'd messed up the image coding..

I had a feeling they were the wrong way round... I'd seen the wikipedia one, and was trying to replicate it (wrongly )

Will post back in half an hour.

Sam

 

[dovetail2007]

Quicker than I expected:

Is this any better now?

Sam

 

[Slim]

Is this any better now?

Sam

Yep, spot on. :wink:

 

[dovetail2007]

Is this any better now?

Sam

Yep, spot on. :wink:

Excellent - many thanks

Sam