Project - "Making a Blanket Chest using the New Jessem router table and the Akeda Dovetail Jig"
It took Beth about 3 minutes to put the fingers for the tails away, and install the fingers for the 7o pins. |
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She double checks to see that all the fingers are fully seated and in register with the marks. |
When routing the pins, Beth has found that she can see the fingers easily from the front. Fact is — with the pins she can guide the router around the finger just by feel. The tails are different in that you need to guide the router into the finger and not to either side. Akeda supplies plastic strips to use as fill between the guides, but Beth and I both think that it is quite easy to guide the router by eye using the extended marks. We haven't cut incorrectly yet. |
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For board placement of both pins and tails, each board was lined up with the left hand stop for one cutting and then rotated and re-clamped so that the right edge would be directly underneath one of the pins (lower arrow). When it was lined up with the left hand stop, the pins at this end would be partial — where the upper arrow is. |
Back at the assembly table, she dry fits the sections. |
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Eight sections...eight dovetail corners and seven exact matches. Somewhere she (we) must have rotated rather than flipped. I see a new end being cut to match the two sides, |
Except for that one blunder, the fit of the dovetails was excellent. |
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We will have to
wait a few days before we can trim each of the sets of boards, but this shows how we will
work it. The guide board we created at the beginning will fit into the outboard pin or
tail. The edge of it will be used to align and clamp the side or end. This alignment will
be done at both ends. Then with the piece aligned and clamped, we can route the new edge.
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