Dovetail Daily: Days 33 & 34

With 30+ days of dovetails under my belt, I found myself scrounging though the cutoff rack for something I could dedicate to another month of joints. Thankfully I found a couple sticks of old white pine hiding and a decent piece of alder that would net a fair number of blocks. Overall I was able to mill up enough stock to get me another 40 days down the road.

[caption id="attachment_821" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 40 days of dovetails[/caption]

So now that I'm all stocked up on...well...stock...lets take a peek at day 33 & 34.

Day 33

[caption id="attachment_822" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Day 33[/caption]

Day 34

[caption id="attachment_823" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Day 34[/caption]

They're not the tightest joints but they're still not bad. For day 33 I used my new 1/2" Stanley 750 right out of the box. It was pretty true and flat and had a decent sharpen on it, but man oh man it wasn't anywhere near sharp enough. As a result the joint suffered. Day 34 saw a similar issue with my Crown bench chisels. I gave them a freshening up about a week ago but it must not have held as the joint saw many of the same problems as day 33 had. Chopping resulted in a fair amount of tear out of the wood fibers and wouldn't stay true in the cut no matter what I did.

Looks like I've got some sharpening to do before I jump into Day 35...