Video: Technique Series #03: Advanced Hand-Cut Dovetails Gift Card

Video: Technique Series #03: Advanced Hand-Cut Dovetails Gift CardThis video provides bench side instruction on hand cutting hound's tooth, half blind, and mitered edge dovetails. Building on "Hand Cut Dovetails" Rob takes you through the more difficult variations of the dovetail joint one step at a time, thoroughly explaining each step as he demonstrates. An additional camera was used in filming this video to provide close up shots of what was happening at the "cutting edge". Rob introduces some custom tools to

This is WoodRiver's No 1 bench plane

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I designed and manufacture two different crosscut saws

Rob shows you the five critical contact points on a plane and how to tune them up

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Think of Rob's Training the Hand Workshop as the "Boot Camp" for traditional hand tool woodworking with approximately 10 hours of “training time” per day

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