Long way around to I was joining a small display cabinet on my putz time and I know better. Normally about all I do is tool maintenance, nice mindless work that can be picked up and dropped with no problems. Anyway, yesterday I cut the dovetails and pins for the third side and they looked as if I had never seen a back saw or chisel before. I tried to talk myself into fixing 'em but the second side while acceptable wasn't as good as it should be so bottom line; The display cabinet is going to be a little smaller than planned.
I cut all the tails and sockets off, re-squared the boards, and started over....you got to know when to quit.
The offending set of tails and sockets.
A new set of tails, I'm stopping here for today. Tonight is the last night on this schedule and I'm off until the first week in Dec. I should get the cabinet finished and started on the stand unless MsOK has other plans.
It's nice to know that I am not alone in the universe with this problem. I've start my share of dovetails over again.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there are the ones I should have re-done :-).
ReplyDeleteSometimes it is just easier to start over. Part of the problem was I had watched Charlesworth's video on chisel techniques and instead of trusting my saw I cut wide and tried to pare to the line. Works great for him, not so much for me.
charlie has been doing it a wee bit longer than the two of us together. I wonder how often he sharpened his chisels doing that video?
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