So I've finally started to practice making neander dovetails. Got myself twenty four feet of 1x4 poplar, a coping saw, dozuki, and a couple of Lee Valley marking gauges. My first attempt looks like hell and sure didn't take any three minutes like Frank Klaus demonstrates but it's mine and I'm happy with it.
I'm cutting six inch pieces with the dozuki, squaring them up with a miter trimmer and using the Lee Valley gauges to mark things out. I can get two test dovetails out of each foot of poplar. If I do two a day, I should be doing a lot better by the end of a week or two.
For your amusement -
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Ok, it's awful but it'll get better. Someday my dovetails will be good enough to go into Derek Cohen's burn pile!