Dovetails

Advance your craft and learn how to make dovetail joints that are both functional and beautiful dovetail joints.

This is the DVD that started it all. With the continued success of “Hand-Cut Dovetails” Rob Cosman has gone on to make numerous instructional DVD’s. His methods and teaching style have helped thousands learn how to cut what many consider the crown jewel of woodworking, the dovetail. This DVD, with its close up photography, will teach you the nitty gritty of how to cut “through-dovetails”, from tool selection to assembly. Rob practises and teaches “saw cut to saw cut” joinery, using the sawn surface as the final surface. “Hand Cut Dovetails” is a precursor to “Advanced Hand Cut Dovetails” and “Drawer Making”.

For centuries, dovetail joints have been instrumental in holding wood together. Though modern mass-production of furniture means that most such joints are now machine-cut instead, there is still a place for traditional hand-cut dovetails in low-volume, high-quality furniture making and, increasingly, in the work of the hobbyist woodworker. Dovetails is a comprehensive guide to the hand-tool preparation of dovetail joinery. Containing over 400 photographs and diagrams, it details how to make 28 dovetail joints, from the simplest example through to complicated puzzle joints.

This detailed course will cover everything you need to make superior drawers on your next project.

Bench-side instruction on hand-cutting hounds tooth, half-blind and mitred edge dovetails. Building on "Hand Cut Dovetails" Rob takes you through the more difficult variations of the joint one step at a time, each thoroughly explained as it is demonstrated. An additional camera was used in this DVD to provide even closer shots of what was happening at the "cutting edge". Rob introduces some custom tools he has found to make the job easier and faster.

For centuries, dovetail joints have been instrumental in holding wood together. Though modern mass-production of furniture means that most such joints are now machine-cut instead, there is still a place for traditional hand-cut dovetails in low-volume, high-quality furniture making and, increasingly, in the work of the hobbyist woodworker. Dovetails is a comprehensive guide to the hand-tool preparation of dovetail joinery. Containing over 400 photographs and diagrams, it details how to make 28 dovetail joints, from the simplest example through to complicated puzzle joints.