Building a Wrapped Sapwood Mitered Dovetail Arm Table

One disadvantage of traditional dovetails is they don't allow for grain continuity across the joint. This problem can be solved by using a special dovetail called a mitered dovetail. With this kind of joint there is grain continuity across a mitered joint at the edges with the classy dovetail look in the middle.

In this video I demonstrate the joint by building a couch arm table out of walnut. I chose a piece of walnut with bright sapwood on the edges to emphasize the grain continuity across the joint.

This relatively simple build took me only a few hours and was completed with minimal use of power tools. I used a power thickness planer and a table saw for one step of the process, and a bandsaw for one quick cut that was proving difficult with my Japanese ryoba saw. Otherwise the only tools used are handplanes, chisels, and hand saws.

I finished the piece with several coats of Arm-R-Seal wipe on polyurethane, which is my favorite durable finish though it takes several days to get enough coats on, with light sanding in between each coat.

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00:00 - Wood selection
01:16 - Milling the wood
03:30 - Dovetail layout
04:23 - Cutting the tails
05:20 - Sharpening chisel
06:38 - Pins layout
07:01 - Mitered corner rough cut
07:40 - Cutting the pins
09:25 - Mitered corner chiseling
10:10 - Glue up
10:50 - Planing the finished surface
12:06 - Applying finish
12:38 - Finished product
12:56 - Gratuitous doggo footage

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