Dovetail Class

I went to a class on making hand cut dovetails last Saturday. Followed by a 6 day class on making a blanket chest with hand cut dovetails.

It was at the Kelly Mehler School of Woodworking in Berea, KY.




In addition to learning a lot, I had a lot of fun. I've never really made anything of any significance to call myself a woodworker yet. So this is a nice way to get started.

We used some small poplar blanks and started with making just one tail, then two and then 3. For the 1 and two tail boards, we chiseled away the waste and for the pins on the 3 tail board, we learned how to use a coping saw or a fret saw to clear most of the waste away and then used a chisel to clean it up.

We had just enough time at the end of the day to get a demonstration of cutting half-blind dovetails and I got started, but didn't manage to finish them in class.




I have some more pictures from the class on my flickr feed.