Linear Dovetail joint

[The Amatuer]

For jointing-and decorative purposes can you use a dovetail joint in a linear joint, and if so how do you create the male end, router ? Sorry all just answered my own question, and no I did'nt have anything to do with mclaren's honda engine.

 

[memzey]

Do you mean a sliding dovetail? If so there are hand and power tool techniques for making them.

 

[thetyreman]

the answer is yes, but not sure exactly what you mean without a drawing or reference, it's easier to see images than talk about it.

 

[Eric The Viking]

I was watching some youtube stuff of Japanese woodworking last night. Their craftsmen routinely make amazingly complex joints, and the ones that have the joinery on show are beautiful - in lots of furniture the exquisite shaping is quite hidden.

I was surprised to see the workshop had big machines and power tools used alongside the most wonderful tiny wooden planes and chisels. Very often the craftsmen using traditional hand tools were wearing earmuffs, because of the chap using a big handheld router on the floor six feet away.

Which makes me wonder if Japanese router cutters are as good as their chisels. If so why aren't they available here? They would be a premium price, I'm sure, but good as they are, I can't believe Japan imports Wealden and CMT...

E.

There is quite a lot of it on YT, and it's well worth a look.

 

[monkeybiter]

Wouldn't Japanese router cutters turn the opposite way?

 

[Eric The Viking]

Nah. They're actually north of the equator.

But wood grain might go in the opposite direction though.

I suspect I might be a bit early commenting however -- I hear there is some new research on the effect of timezones on tree growth due to be published in six or so day's time...

E.

 

[monkeybiter]

I was thinking more of a router that cut on the pull-stroke. But a pull-stoke would require a reciprocating motion [like a 'multi-tool'] so the only way I could think of was an anti-clock rotation. With folded steel cutters and a cord-wrapped shank.