5 Tips to INSTANTLY Improve your DOVETAILS

In this video I cover 5 very simple, yet often overlooked techniques to instantly improve your hand-cut dovetail results.
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CHAPTERS:
0:30 - The Invisible Baseline
2:42 - Gang Cutting
8:15 - Vee Groove
11:11 - Efficient Sharpening
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My name is Matt Estlea, I'm a 22 year old Woodworker from Basingstoke in England and my aim is to make your woodworking less s***.

I come from 5 years tuition at Rycotewood Furniture Centre and 4 years experience working at Axminster Tools and Machinery where I still currently work on weekends. During the week, I film woodworking projects, tutorials, reviews and a viewer favourite 'Tool Duel' where I compare two cometitive manufacturers tools against one another to find out which is best.

I like to have a laugh and my videos are quite fast paced BUT you will learn a lot, I assure you.

Lets go make a mess.
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MATT ESTLEA WOODWORK 2018

[MattEstlea]

Which one of these tips are you going to try out? Let me know below!

[katzmosestools]

Great video Matt! Thanks for the shout out! You're truly a dovetail master.

[egbluesuede]

You are truly an excellent teacher. A dovetail master for sure, but your teaching skills are equally good!

[AbouTheMagnanimus]

That last tip is great. Something you pick up for yourself after five years of struggling, but good to hear now. Thanks, Matt.

And... oi... controversial indeed!

[davidjennings]

Hi Mate - When there's snow on the ground and the workshop is freezing what better way to spend an hour - or two watching your videos. You make me smile every time. Great ideas but I'm a bit old fashioned, I prefer to work free of jigs - heck I don't always measure my dovetails. I kinda like the rustic look - but accurate. Great vid again really enjoyed it - Regards Dave

[DannyStJohn-dqgs]

This is awesome. I went to a woodworking school, and have experience cutting dovetail; but there are several tips within this that I have never heard of. Excited to try them out!

[MyVinylRips]

Excellent as always. Your channel has become a main source for me when it comes to essential skills and how to perform them. Keep it up!

[volinarsworkshop]

Some really cool tips. Definitely a great tip on the end of sharpening before you do the finish pairing at the end for multiple dovetails.

Will definitely have to try these out once i start doing some doves!

[matthewvanmilligen]

Great video: another advantage of gang cutting is that you only have tearout on the back piece, as all the pieces in front of it have support on the push stroke (assuming you are using a western-style saw). Most Dovetail saws don't leave too much tear out, but it's nice to have one less thing to worry about. Also, if speed is a factor, you can use a more aggressive joinery saw and make sure the back piece is either the inside of a drawer or sacrificial.

[athertones]

Very good. Cut my first dovetail last weekend, couldn't have done such a neat job without your vids. Top tips :)

[jochanan]

Thanks Matt, awesome tips... I like the tip with placing a shoulder on the backside to re-align!

[Kikilang]

Thanks. I find that I need all the help I can get, and this helps.

[JTWoodworks]

Thanks for the tips Matt. I haven't seen or heard of these before. I really appreciate it. By the way I've been binge watching your videos. You do a great job with editing and there's always great take aways and things to learn. You have a new sub!

[williambranham]

I revisited your video today .Your tips are great as I stated earlier. I cut a lot of dovetails since then but as hard as I tried, occasionally there was an issue. So I thought about what was missing in my technique and in reality I was not spending as much time as needed to make sure all components were square, flat, without twist and straight, consistent thickness. I do most of my stock milling by hand so it's a bit harder I think, than by machine. Since adding this "quality control" to my technique, things have improved a bunch. Thanks for your video.

[atldarrick]

Will use all these besides for the dovetail guide. Also, on tip 5, i just strop the chisel a few times between use. Good video matt, always look forward to your content.

[rickwallin]

Thank you! Spent half my life in the Army, now studying woodworking, so best words I think: Thank You!

[tomlagatol]

Great Instructional video! I very much like your channel. Thanks.

[mamabearssheshedtracykeato]

Very good tips indeed! Thank you for sharing.

[williambranham]

Excellent material and well presented. hank you.

[kevinmorin]

thanks for the fine tips on this series of cuts