After the last dovetail for practice, here's my first ever dovetailed box, and a big one it is. It's for my tool chest, 24"x36"x21". Not bad for the first attempt. Some gaps here and there, but it will be painted anyway. And it glued up square which is quite a relief.
Things that really helped me get this done more neatly was using Derek's blue tape trick for the pins and clamping a quick fence on the base line to make sure my chisel paring was true vertical. Using the fence ended up speeding up my chopping job a lot because I wasn't worried about vertical. I consider the fence 'training wills', though; I will keep practicing without it to get used to feeling true vertical with the chisel.
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