Reply To: Dovetail quality discussion
Thanks for the reply! I agree a room full of 90% perfect furniture is better than a single perfect piece. I haven’t been woodworking all that long, but about 6 months ago I started sawing directly to my dovetail lines instead of planning to chisel to my lines. As we all know that will speed things up dramatically, but at first this wasn’t as clean as if I had chiseled to the line. Now, my saw lines are as clean as my chisel lines, getting dovetails in half the time. Not sure what my point is besides practice makes perfect, and it has to be better to cut hundreds of 90% perfect dovetails than a dozen perfect dovetails, right?
