End On End Dovetails
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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. 😉
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You must be logged in to view attached files.19 November 2013 at 6:25 pm #21805they look great Ken i think you have too much time on your hands get on with some paying work lol
19 November 2013 at 6:54 pm #21809I 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.
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 9:13 pm #21869Ken 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 😉23 August 2020 at 5:50 pm #675179This 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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