End On End Dovetails
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Jan Khmelnytsky.
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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. ๐
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. ๐
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
Eddy .. Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
,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.
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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 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 ๐Dagenham, Essex, England
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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