Project - "Making a Blanket Chest using the New Jessem router table and the Akeda Dovetail Jig"

With her glued up panels drying in the background, Beth takes a look at the instructions for the Akeda Jig. I want to have her practice on a couple of scraps before she takes on the blanket chest boards.
	We will be doing through dovetails for the blanket chest so I have her install the 3/4" 7o dovetail bit. For the 3/4" stock, that is really the only dovetail bit available to us.
She also has installed the straight bit in the 2nd router.
	At the Akeda jig, I have her clamp one of the test pieces in the jig and pressing against the left hand stop. The board is higher than it will be when cutting. I find this height makes for easier setting of the dovetail fingers.
She uses the Point2Point tool to layout her dovetails. They do not need to be close together, but how much to space them out is a question. I suggest to her that she just try a spacing and we can see how the test looks once done.
	The arrow points to the dimple that is a reference point for the left side of the board. She is marking the points starting 1/8" this side of that dimple. On the near side, she has located the mark, 1/8" to the left of the end of the board. There is some play in the marking tool so the dovetails will not be exactly equal, but that doesn't matter. The Akeda Jig will make the dovetail sockets and pins fit, no matter where the marks are placed.
Beth will cut the dovetails first. She takes the "U-shaped" fingers from the handy storage case.
	It takes Beth only a few practice tries to get the hang of how to fasten the fingers into the guide rail.
Having set all the fingers to her pencil marks, she is now placing a piece of white paper tape just behind the marks.
	She uses a square to pencil in straight lines at each of her marks.