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This is Mike (Hello) and of course I’m new at this woodworking just a tad. I’m wanting to learn how to make dovetails. The type of dovetails I need to make are the tiny ones like those used on vintage wooden Remington Cartridges cases. Those are Full Dovetails of the Box/Finger type. I will be making true Full dovetail joints. But this should give you the idea just the same.
Here is why, I’m asking for your comments. My wood material is called hobby board from Lowes. It is 3/8 ths thick by 4 inch width by 36 inch long. This will be just a square frame to hold a really tiny train set. In other words this is very lightweight application, nothing heavy. But it should still be durable even with such small wooden boards.
My dovetail bit is a Woodline WL-1300 which according to their site has a 7 ½ degree Angle on it, with a ¼ inch Width, a 5/16 cutting length and a ¼ inch Shank which came all the way from Taiwan so it must be a good’un. I already have a dandy Ryobi router with a ¼ inch collet size. So I should be good there too.
Sorry for the blah blah blah now my questions are here.
I looked at the dovetail jigs from Porter-Cable, DeWalt, Rockler, and Leigh. The Leigh I’m very impressed with just for the ISOLock feature but it seems a little out of my range to be starting off with.
Now the Porter-Cable and the DeWalt jig both looks to me like they are identical??? Is this correct in fact?
The reason I ask is because I can get the Porter Cable jig locally. Then I saw on the UK *bay site a comb or template if you will, that has very tightly spaced combs to allow me closer pins and tails like I will need for this size of wood.
To clarify: the Porter-Cable jig comes with a ½ inch comb so I’m thinking I will need this DeWalt DE6215 comb to make the closer joints.
Would anyone know if this comb will fit the Porter-Cable jig.
Also does anyone know if I’m starting out in the right direction to achieve the desired results in the first place!
Thanks For your Comments and Suggestions.
Mike
This is Mike (Hello) and of course I’m new at this woodworking just a tad. I’m wanting to learn how to make dovetails. The type of dovetails I need to make are the tiny ones like those used on vintage wooden Remington Cartridges cases. Those are Full Dovetails of the Box/Finger type. I will be making true Full dovetail joints. But this should give you the idea just the same.
Here is why, I’m asking for your comments. My wood material is called hobby board from Lowes. It is 3/8 ths thick by 4 inch width by 36 inch long. This will be just a square frame to hold a really tiny train set. In other words this is very lightweight application, nothing heavy. But it should still be durable even with such small wooden boards.
My dovetail bit is a Woodline WL-1300 which according to their site has a 7 ½ degree Angle on it, with a ¼ inch Width, a 5/16 cutting length and a ¼ inch Shank which came all the way from Taiwan so it must be a good’un. I already have a dandy Ryobi router with a ¼ inch collet size. So I should be good there too.
Sorry for the blah blah blah now my questions are here.
I looked at the dovetail jigs from Porter-Cable, DeWalt, Rockler, and Leigh. The Leigh I’m very impressed with just for the ISOLock feature but it seems a little out of my range to be starting off with.
Now the Porter-Cable and the DeWalt jig both looks to me like they are identical??? Is this correct in fact?
The reason I ask is because I can get the Porter Cable jig locally. Then I saw on the UK *bay site a comb or template if you will, that has very tightly spaced combs to allow me closer pins and tails like I will need for this size of wood.
To clarify: the Porter-Cable jig comes with a ½ inch comb so I’m thinking I will need this DeWalt DE6215 comb to make the closer joints.
Would anyone know if this comb will fit the Porter-Cable jig.
Also does anyone know if I’m starting out in the right direction to achieve the desired results in the first place!
Thanks For your Comments and Suggestions.
Mike