Rookie Attempt at Sliding Dovetail
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- This is my first attempt at doing a sliding dovetail. It was fun learning a new joint and I look forward to using it in some upcoming projects.
Here is the link to the mobile workbench…
• Matchfit Workbench
Great video😁 To avoid blow out (5:37/13:50). If you know where the bit will exit, enter the exit point first just far enough to penetrate the full width of the bit. Than go to the other side and finish the cut (rotor path).
Thank you, I will definitely try that next time.
Sometimes when my tails are to loose I use water to expand the tail a bit. Great job
Thanks for the tip. I’ll definitely keep that in mind.
Two questions:
1) Are you still using the 1/4" straight bit to do the hogging, or, did you switch to the 5/16 to give you some more spacing between, to make it easier to move the clamps, and have you found anything to use it like T-tracks for tools?
2) Is that MDF on the table? How is it holding up with the clamping, etc?
Yes I still use the 1/4” bit and also have used my tables saw to hog out the material. Yes I have used the Matchfit system for a few jigs and tools.
I don’t have that workbench anymore but yes it held up great. I built a new one with dog holes and sold the Matchfit ones. Hope this helps
@@aaronbebeau Just Curious.. I see at least two Matchfits in your shop.
One 24" or so deep you did some work on and the blower sitting on another in the background that looks like 32" or so deep...
Are you going Dog Holes only?
Or, keeping one MF for Assembly, or getting rid of all of them?
Just curious as to why. I am just getting into tables, so, I have no experience with either, but, the Matchfit seems like an awesome tool/table to me..
But, if I were to see potential problems, it would be Dust/Screws, etc, getting into the grouves and not easy to get out without air, magnets or vacuum whatever it is and never see it again..
Maybe not the greatest for a work table, but, did you decide on not keeping one for an assembly table?
I have just about decided I would build a 4x4' torsion box with dog holes, and a 4x4' Matchfit board to lay on top of some heavy duty saw horses adding matchfit to the side of one of he saw horses to hold panel vertically on it's side, and using it, just to get a feel for it. I figured if I didn't like either, I could lay some HDF over the torsion box and same with the Matchfit and use them for an outfeed or work table. I will finally have some extra room to work with..
Thanks.. You should do good on YT.. You have a good style for it.. Thanks for the videos.
@@aaronbebeau BTW.. I was looking at Hooked on Wood because I remembered him having a table with matchfit on the sides and he mentioned in a video that the Matchfit dovetail bits had a rounded shoulder on them, and no other bit had it like that.. I went and looked at Chinese bits, Freud, Whiteside, and he is right. So, the edges of the MDF at the top of the grouve would be too sharp and might break off easily..
All the other bits leave a sharp top edge and the matchfit has a rounded top shoulder.. Anyway.. Figured I would mention that, in case it was one of the aggravations..
@@MarkThomas123I did a video on my new workbench. You should check it out. I plan on adding a few dovetail grooves to it as well in the future. I’ve done a few projects on it and I am loving it.
If you decide to build a Matchfit bench I would recommend doing less grooves than I did. I went 4” apart and it is just too much. Yes you are correct some of the irritations were screws,dust, and pencils getting trapped in the grooves. I mentioned a few things about it in my “new workbench” video.
@@MarkThomas123thanks for the kind words too!