How to Cut Dovetails by Hand

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I love teaching people to cut dovetails because, contrary to what seems to be popular belief on the internet, they are not really all that hard. With some basic instruction, nine fairly basic tools, and an afternoon in the shop, I’m pretty confident anyone can cut a perfectly functional set. It may not be the prettiest set, but, in antiquity, dovetails were actually invented because hand-forged nails were the only option at the time, and were too expensive to produce.

If you go to an antique store and look inside the drawers of old furniture, chances are the dovetails you see are not going to be all that pretty. They weren’t meant to be the Everest of woodworking, they were meant to hold two pieces of wood together.

You’ll notice in this video I use a whole lot of fancy tools. I use them because I have them and I am proud to have purchased them from boutique toolmakers supporting their families with small-batch tools of extremely high quality. I’ll go through the list of tools I use and love at the end of this video, but as I mentioned at the beginning of this video, you can cut dovetails with 9 basic tools that most people already have, in some rusty form or another, in their garage.

Check out the full tutorial on cutting dovetails on my blog: https://www.anneofalltrades.com/blog/2019/5/1/learn-to-cut-dovetails-by-hand

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Introduction Music: "Hands Dirty" By Delta Rae https://www.deltarae.com/

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