Speaking of Dovetail Planes
After seeing Harry's fantastic electron muncher, and then a few examples of adrenalin-fed ones, I started searching around for what's out there in the way of dovetail planes. I have a project coming up that will require some long sliding dovetails at the ends of some long panels.
My hope for this project was to do my best to use hand tools as much as possible. So I started hunting around the web. I found Steve Knight's and one by ECE, and I read what Patrick Leach feels about the Stanley #444. It seems that around there is where I hit a dead end. I'm not finding much else on them. It seems like such a handy thing to have (in my mind) for sliding dovetails.
Do you fine folks know of any other offerings? Can be wood or metal, I'm not too picky (unless someone can lead me to be) in that regard. Not having ever touched/used one of these things I don't fully know what questions I should be asking about them. I assume there are ways to adjust depth of cut, length of tail and that kind of thing. I would be surprised if one existed that allowed you to select the pitch of the tail, too, but I suppose it's possible.
Having not seen much info on them, I wonder if sliding dovetails were done differently. I suppose sawing a shoulder and going at it with a chisel is possible, but I'd be surprised if I could keep an even pitch at the same time keeping an even depth of cut.
So how about it? Anyone know of other dovetail plane offerings out there?
Much appreciated :)