In the future I would try to secure other wood that may help to reduce the chipping and produce better, smoother dovetail blanks, and hopefully I can find this wood in a dark color for the contrasting look I want to achieve. I think the type of wood I was using combined with the cut of wood that I had combined to make this chippy type of cut. This resulted in less than idea dovetail blanks, but they were usable. There was no sawdust, just chips of wood and some of them large. The wood I was using was very chippy when I ran it through the router table. I did mine it 3 tries but it could have easily been more. Not really, it still takes time, setting, and re-setting and running pieces of wood through until you get one that fits. I know that the dovetail bit has a top radius of 1/2" so I decided to cut my blank material at that width to see if that would help with the alignment. There is no way that I know of to make the dovetail blanks except trial-and-error cutting. My next challenge now is to make a sliding dovetail blank that will fit snugly into the dovetail slot I just cut. The cut made with the dovetail router bit looked fine. I lowered the router bit and tried again, still to high so I lowered it slightly again and the final cut went through as it should. The reason for this is because I had the bit too high and although the top of the bit was cutting into the jig and partially into my sample corner, the reason it stopped was because the shank was above the router table and of course would not cut into the jig's base. The bit stopped about halfway through the first cut. after the trimming I fastened the edges on and made the side that will ride against the router fence about 12" long because I wanted a longer smooth edge as a guide.Īfter the jig was made I took my sample corner, adjusted my dovetail bit in the router table as best I could and began to run the first cut.
My plywood was slightly bowed so I needed to ensure that the angle was correct and the wood was straight.Īs you can see in the video, I also took some of the point off the bottom of the jig before assembly because it is not needed and because the dovetail router bit I had only had 1/2" height of the actual dovetail piece. I glued the edges together at 90 degrees, making sure that the angle was exactly 90 degrees, you can see all the clamps I used to do this, I used my doweling jig to ensure the edges were aligned. I cut a 4 inch wide strip and after cutting that strip in half I had 2 - 1/2"x12"x4" strips. I made mine from good quality 1/2" plywood. The first thing that needs to be done is to make the jig. Adding Dovetail Splines is one way of adding detail but it does take a degree of patience, and you need to select the correct accessories and woods to make this job go smoothly and by reading this you will see some of the challenges I encountered and what you can do to help eleviate them. Adding detail to box corners really makes them stand out and helps to reinforce the edges as well.
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