Dovetail Daily: Days 37

Yup! You read that correctly...Days 37 through 52! It's been two and a half weeks since I last posted a dovetail daily update. OUCH! I wish I had some phenomenal announcement as to the reason why it's taken me this long to get things back up to date, but alas, no such luck.

So there's lots to cover for the past 17 days; we had better get to it!

Day 37:

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Day 38:

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Day 39:

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Day 40:

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Day 41:

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Sometime around day 40 I started to get bored. I mean seriously, at this point even Noah was looking for the pit stop and somewhere to unload the wife and kids. So I started toying with spicing up the standard tail and decided to give a dovetail/box joint combo a few tries. The 1st on day 42 was pretty ugly, but by day 43 I pretty much had it dialed in. I really only gave this joint a few days before I just jumped right into a double tail/narrow pin combo. I wonder why that is...

Day 42:

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Day 43:

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Day 44:

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Day 45:

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Day 46:

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After day 46, a friend on Twitter inquired why not begin planing/finishing the joint rather than leaving things rough. In all honesty I had actually considered doing this from day 1 but for some reason held off. I'm not sure if it was that the ultimate goal in all of this was to be able to take a joint strait from the saw/chisel chop to assembly and have it be tight and well fit. But Martin (@Cobwobbler), was absolutely correct. By finishing the joint with a plane as you would in a finished piece it helped the process immensely. It highlighted tight joints, revealed loose spots and removed minor imperfections & layout lines etc. So my hats off to you Martin, without your prodding I'd still be leaving things as is and not really knowing if the joint was truly as tight as it could have been, nor would I be able to see and analyze every joint for what I've done right and what I've done horribly wrong.

Day 47:

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