Sliding tapered sloped and skewed dovetail for legs

[Sean Hellman]

I make dovetail legs joints. I know this joint has been used in Eastern Europe for making a trestles for rip sawing trees on. I am not sure what to call it and have not turned up any reference about this type of joint.
Here is a picture of one. Can anyone shed any light on this type of joint for me please.

The dovetail is tapered so will slide out. The legs are sloped out by 20 degrees and skewed sidewards by 10 degrees ish

 

[deema]

I believe it's called a Rising Dovetail. Roy Underhill shows how to make them when he produces a workbench. The following is a very good uTube in how to make them, there really not that difficult.

http://youtu.be/YzFBMqRvUfE

 

[Sean Hellman]

Thanks for that deema, but that is not the same joint, it shares some similarities. The joint in the video is 90 degrees. The joint I make has a compound angle made into the dovetail so the leg is sloping 20 degrees out from the side and has a back skew angle of 10 degrees.

 

[G S Haydon]

Stunning bench Sean.