An alternative method of dovetailing is that of cutting the dovetails first, as shown at Fig.
The dovetails are now sawn and pared out in the usual way and the part denoted by the arrow is afterwards cut away with a chisel and finally finished to a smooth surface with a rebate plane; the method of working is shown at Fig.
When the paring out of the dovetails is completed the drawer front is turned over on to the side as shown, and the position of the recesses which will engage the pin portions are marked with the marking awl as illustrated.
The dotted lines indicate the positions which the dovetails will occupy when marked out.
This will give the true shape of the two dovetails and it is to this shape that you will cut your joint.
Another method of marking through dovetails is shown at Fig 279.
The inclination of the lines across the end of the wood should not be too great, or the joint will be a weak one, and the edges of the dovetails will be liable to crumble away when the work is knocked together.
To cut out the waste wood (or core), the usual procedure is to saw away the half-dovetails as at Fig.
Undercut dovetails prevent a proper grip of the glue; they give a weak joint, and often cause the face of the drawer side to be splintered whilst driving up the joint.
As a general rule machine-made drawer and box dovetails show both the pins and the tails of exactly the same size.
After marking out the pins on the drawer sides, we proceed with the next operation, that is, sawing the dovetails ready for chopping out the waste material.
Four or six drawer sides are placed in the vice and the dovetails are sawn at one operation.
The strongest arrangement of dovetails is to make them equal in width to the spaces between them, as in No.
To make a thru multiple dovetail joint, first square lines with a sharp pencil around the ends of both members to locate the inner ends of the dovetails and the pins, d e on X, Fig.
The edges of the boards are also mitered right thru for a short distance so that when finished the dovetails are invisible.
Lay out and cut the dovetails as in a thru dovetail joint, taking especial care to have the groove for the bottom completely within the lower tail.
Where there are several parts to be made alike, it is necessary to lay out the dovetails on only one X member.
Seven-eighths pine is good for this practice work, but white wood gives better practice, in that it is harder, and the dovetails cannot be forced together without breaking, unless the fit is good.
This single dovetail was followed by a box dovetail joint comprising three dovetails on one piece, as shown in Fig.
When the two pieces are together, the dovetails are invisible.
The dovetails that appear on the surface are only oblique sections of dovetailed-shaped tongues and grooves running diagonally from face to face.
This method of laying out dovetails is much surer than that of laying out each piece separately according to the dimensions, as any variation from the figures is duplicated on the second piece, so that they must fit.
The dovetailsare seen from only one side; used in cabinet work, especially in drawer construction.
Then allow one-eighth of an inch more than the thickness of your sides, and set out the ends, squaring it over on both sides, which when the dovetails are cut out will form the inside of the box.
Saw these dovetails 3/16" deep, and pare them slanting with a chisel.
From its bottom, gage a line marking the height of the dovetails in which the blocks C and D fit 3/8" on each side.
The teeth may then be got out as described for glued teeth, and the dovetails added, each being marked to its place, and finally the teeth are cut to shape.
The bottom of the dovetails need not be circular, but flat, which is easier to make.
Thus constructed of three pieces of wood, united by alternate opposite dovetails and bound together by cold-drawn iron plates, they revolved in the trees or amaxopodes.
A few of these dovetails have been extracted, and, although walled in for eternity so far as the intentions of the Egyptians were concerned, they bear the royal ovals of Seti I.
Mallory's fixed up everything--and it all dovetails in neatly with Kitty's saying you were staying with friends for the night.
And as finance plays a most important part in that affair, the matter dovetails exactly!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dovetails" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
