End On End Dovetails

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  • Ken
    19 November 2013 at 5:59 pm #21798

    I honestly don’t know why I thought of trying this, but here are the results.

    End on end dovetails I call them, there are a few gaps, but you will get the general Idea. Would they have any practical use, good question. 🙂

    This was just two bits of scrap, not even the same thickness, they are not glued up, just dry fitted. If I took my time and did it properly I think they would look Ok. 😉

    Eddy Flynn
    19 November 2013 at 6:25 pm #21805

    they look great Ken i think you have too much time on your hands get on with some paying work lol

    Eddy .. Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
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    Ken
    19 November 2013 at 6:30 pm #21806

    Thanks Eddy, I did them in my off time, honest boss 😉

    Greg Merritt
    19 November 2013 at 6:54 pm #21809

    I like it Ken. Not sure about the application either. If nothing else, decorative. A chisel box with (8) dovetail joints, (4) on the corners, (4) on the sides.

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    Ken
    19 November 2013 at 7:01 pm #21810

    Thanks Greg. It would be different if nothing else buddy. 🙂

    dborn
    20 November 2013 at 6:22 am #21824

    I like the way this looks, would make an interesting tabltop.

    Dan

    Ken
    20 November 2013 at 6:33 am #21826

    Good Idea Dan something like this

    Jay
    20 November 2013 at 9:58 am #21829

    Would look cool with two different colors of wood. You could make a dovetail box with end on end dovetail walls of light and dark color woods.

    str8tedge
    20 November 2013 at 3:23 pm #21856

    Ken,

    Usually commercial firms use finger joints (machine made) to join boards end to end. I’ve not seen your application before, but I think it would depend on the manner in which you used it. Not sure what that would be though.

    Good on you for experimenting.

    Franco
    20 November 2013 at 5:44 pm #21860

    Would it be possible to make the middle dovetail on the other piece of wood? Not sure if it’s easily done, but it would make it stand out more perhaps.

    Ken
    20 November 2013 at 6:00 pm #21861

    Thanks guys. Franco I’m not sure on that one buddy. 😉

    Franco
    20 November 2013 at 6:13 pm #21862

    Ok. Back to joinery 101 for me! 🙂

    Mark Armstrong
    20 November 2013 at 9:13 pm #21869

    Ken would look good as a decorative feature as already stated above.
    Then only other thing I can see it being used for would be to lengthen boards.
    Well done Ken 😉

    Dagenham, Essex, England

    Ken
    20 November 2013 at 9:18 pm #21870

    Thanks Mark I was just playing about with them buddy, plus it was good practice. 😉

    Russell Mitchell
    23 August 2020 at 5:50 pm #675179

    This thread looks like it has been dead for some time. I have a few book-end-matched live-edge boards I would like use as a table and end jointing them together with a visible joint is a useful approach, I am thinking about a short band of accenting wood as an intermediary, so a lighter maple highly figured piece, to a darker, perhaps walnut board (maybe a few boards wide and edge-glued) (maybe dominoed) then the matched live edge heading off in the book-end orientation. The tabletop is well supported and could be reinforced with a stringer or two below, if the joints themselves prove unstable.

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