Stopped Dovetail joints

[kmcleod]

Has anyone ever used stopped dovetail joints for bookcase or similar ?

And is it possible to do without a router table ?

LOML wants me to make a pedastal unit and using stopped dovetails or stopped rebates is the only way I can think to do it...

I'll post a drawing once I've refined it a bit, (still trying to learn sketchup !!!)

Thanks !!

 

[RogerS]

Simple answer is 'yes' since that's what they did before routers even existed. But isn't this a heaven sent opportunity to tell SWMBO how much you NEED a router to do this job for her?

BTW creating stopped dovetails is very straightforward. Create the dovetail shape on the face and then use push/pull to push it into the workpiece.