End On End Dovetails

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

    19 November 2013 at 6:25 pm #21805
    Eddy Flynn
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    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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    19 November 2013 at 6:30 pm #21806
    Ken
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    Thanks Eddy, I did them in my off time, honest boss 😉

    19 November 2013 at 6:54 pm #21809
    Greg Merritt
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    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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    19 November 2013 at 7:01 pm #21810
    Ken
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    Thanks Greg. It would be different if nothing else buddy. 🙂

    20 November 2013 at 6:22 am #21824
    dborn
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    I like the way this looks, would make an interesting tabltop.

    Dan

    20 November 2013 at 6:33 am #21826
    Ken
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    Good Idea Dan something like this

    20 November 2013 at 9:58 am #21829
    Jay
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    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.

    20 November 2013 at 3:23 pm #21856
    str8tedge
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    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.

    20 November 2013 at 5:44 pm #21860
    Franco
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    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.

    20 November 2013 at 6:00 pm #21861
    Ken
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    Thanks guys. Franco I’m not sure on that one buddy. 😉

    20 November 2013 at 6:13 pm #21862
    Franco
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    Ok. Back to joinery 101 for me! 🙂

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

    20 November 2013 at 9:18 pm #21870
    Ken
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    Thanks Mark I was just playing about with them buddy, plus it was good practice. 😉

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