Dovetail Daily: Days 137-142

By matthew
Mar 18, 2013

One of the toughest thing about trying to grow and build your business is finding time to give to those smaller projects; such as Dovetail Daily. I make attempts each week to get back into a regular rythum, but life keeps pulling me away.

Anyway, let's take a peek at days 137-142. I'm fairly happy with these sets. On the through joints my goal was to get the pins to 1/16'-3/32' thick at the narrowest. This essentially gives me just enough room to fit my marking knife in to mark each pin. I've also decided that I'm going to alternate every 4 sets...4 through...4 1/2 blind and so on in an effort to keep the boredom at bay.

Day 137

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Day 138

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Day 139

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Day 140

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Day 141

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Day 142

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Daily Bench 3.9.13

By matthew
Mar 09, 2013

Daily Bench 3.9.13

Oi, who thought 9 dovetailed boxes at the same time was a good idea.

Dovetail Daily: Days 132-136

By matthew
Mar 04, 2013

And here we are at Days 132-136 of our Dovetail Daily experiment. I think moving forward I'm going to begin pushing out our weekly update on Monday mornings. Seems like as good a day as any to review the week prior.

Day 132

Day 132

Day 133

Day 133

Day 134

Day 134

Day 135

Day 135

Day 136

Day 136

I have to admit that even though I'm only a few days into running with half blind dovetails...I'm already bored of them. It might be the pine...I don't know. There's just something about the process that has me yawning and I need to figure out a way to spice it up. So if you have a suggestion feel free to drop me a line.

What'r You LOOKIN At!!! aka Dovetail Daily: Days 130-131

By matthew
Feb 27, 2013

In today's post we're looking at dovetail daily, days 130-131. We're also talking about shaking the program up and shifting gears into cutting half blind dovetails. That's right...we learned our lessons from that ill-fated attempt (day 113) where I thought cutting 3 tails in a narrow piece of poplar was a good idea...yeah...dum dum dum...anyhow we learned, we grew and now life is interesting once again!

 

Day 130 - aka National Margarita Day...mmm mmm mmm...why can't every day be National Margarita day?!?!?!?!

Day 130

Day 131 - aka Why is the world spinning that way day!!! or... Why does my heart have to beat so LOUDLY day!!!

Day 131

What's that? You don't believe me that February 22nd really is National Margarita day?!?!?!?! WHY I OUGHTA!!!! ok...breathing...breathing....

So mister/miss smarty pants...take a peek here for the 411 on National Margarita day...the holiest of holy national days!

Cheers!!!

Tasty tasty margaritas

And yes...that is a Lee Valley tools catalog my margarita is resting on...what do you read when getting toasted on margaritas? Martha Stewart Living...psha!!!