Hand Cut Dovetails | How to Tweak your Dovetails for a Better Fit

Rob Cosman shows you his trick for eliminating gas between your dovetails in soft wood
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[maponce]

I’ve never been so confused about something and then have it click so hard when you explained it. This is GENIUS!

[freeofbug]

Always clear in your explanation, as I am a native french. So much evidence about how to offset the cut. I will not died idiot

[glennthomas]

At 6:04 did you accidentally mark the pin on the wrong side of the tail. You talked about the Sean Shim in a previous video and I had to watch it a couple times to get my head around what was going on. Only mentioning this because it might be hard for somebody trying to follow this to understand or maybe I’m wrong and still don’t get it.
Magical timing. My marking saw that you’re demonstrating came in the mail today! Woohoo.

[allanon]

Great video Rob- will certainly help as I practice. Thanks for all you do to support woodworkers and through PHP!

[countrymagic]

Now it sinks in to what you were telling me when I was in class.👍😀

[emersonassis]

Wow...when we see the idea..we think it is so simple...but thinking about the idea we see so genial it is in simplicity itself
Shaw shim it is an amazing idea by the way (with that sawblade red knife be Romeo and Juliet)
Thanks for all video class and constant support
Congratulations from Brazil

[richpeggyfranks]

I've been using a similar technique using blue tape as the spacer. Very close, but not perfect every time. The Shawn shim is a great idea for repeatability. I'm going to measure my saw this morning when I get to the shop. Thanks for presenting another innovation.

[tuxbanjo]

If you sharpen and set your own saw by hand, I presume that you lose some of the precision of the kerf width. What would you recommend? Measure the kerf width after each set and stone the teeth to even the set? Measure the kerf width and adjust the offset?

[Carpenters_Canvas]

Another awesome video rob, thanks for all you do.

[ХенаКузнец]

Good afternoon! Why is there a sub-caliber projectile in the workshop?

[twandieltjes]

Great explanation and work. Me is always told that if such a joint is too tight, the glue-up will be less stronger. How does it hold with your piece when the joint is made a but tighter?
Thanks for sharing

[Tensquaremetreworkshop]

This is a useful jig. And, if you have access to a mill, quick and easy to make. No mill? With the aid of a digital caliper, it is not hard to make with a hand file. Does not have to be brass- aluminum works just as well, and is cheaper/easier to source.
Instead of using a knife to make the mark, using a pointed saw (with the same kerf) that is pull-cut makes a small trough that the saw fits into- great precision.

[Ginebraconmate]

Exelente explicacion se entendio, lo que nunca me gusto es la marca que deja el gramil cuando marcan la prof por cierto ese serrucho de costilla se ve hermoso . no se por que los chicos q veo en redes usan rioba dzuki o kataba. Japoneses .cuando los costillas para mi " son hermosos y presisos

[Carpenters_Canvas]

I am really getting frustrated with dovetails lol. I have the worst case of the "can't saw straits". I'm going in the wrong direction too, meaning my tails are wider where I'm marking them and thinner where I cut them from, if that makes sense., always a gap, the worst type of gap, always from the same step, the first one, cutting square "no wood then pen, just pen " type of issues.

SO, I see people starting to migrate to jigs and what not and I say, go ahead if that's helping you, me? I want to own the joint. So do jigs help you learn? I don't know why but when I watch other videos of ppl using magnetic jigs where all they have to do is move the blade back and forth, again fine, but I wonder if something like that can be helpful? At what point does it become a jig? because technically you are cutting it by hand right? but are you?
if anyone reads this, let me know what you think, thanks again Rob!

[daveengstrom]

I could have used that trick 50 years ago. ☺

[WoodenWaresHandwork]

This isn't anything new Rob. A few years ago I remember you demonstrating the same thing.

[Mhj]

Amazing. Thanks. However, you shun using a guide to hold the blade or chisel when sharpening because you can learn to do it without. But you promote using a Shaun shim and saw blade knife. How do you resolve that contradiction.