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I’m glad someone else asked this as well as me. I see all these videos of the perfect finished dovetails but each time different words are used to describe the method. Paul uses different terms such as right up against, right on and probably some others. There is a Lee valley article that says “right on your line”.
I’m finding the search ability of this particular site difficult to narrow down previous questions so I’m glad this was close to the top.
Has Paul ever written a blog post about this? He’s a stickler for precision and accuracy.
I think the posts above explain pretty well.
If I understand it right I Consider my saws kerf and rhe method I’m marking my pins with. If a knife, that line is pretty much a facsimile of the tight line between the two pieces so as long as my kerf remains on the waste side it will be accurate (perhaps with a little paring to get to the line). If I use pencil (and let’s say the lead point is 1mm thick) that entire mark is on the waste side. If my kery is 1mm wide I can saw right on the line, removing it as I saw.
Thanks all,
Rowly