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Ive got a bit of an issue with my dovetails and could use some suggestions. Im not a novice- Ive got a little bit of experience, and my hand cut tails have improved over time, to the point that i may actually show one to another human being at some time in the near future. My biggest issue... the thing that would put me within a few lightyears of the likes of Paul Sellers like joinery if i could overcome it, is the cross cutting between the tails and pins. I can make my vertical cuts down the sides of my pins and tails with the best of em, and then it goes from not bad to scrap bucket quick. I can make it work with my chissels and a coping saw, or by cutting nowhere near my lines and using the old file, but what i would really like to do, is get in there with a spiral fret and make a nice clean cut out of the gate. But I am having way too much trouble swallowing the prices on some of the quality saws out there like the knew concepts birdcage frame saws.Not gone do it. I refuse. Ill spend a few bucks on a nice sweetheart no.4, or a classy dovetail saw... but those frets are just stupid. STUPID. I found some cheapos on amazon, but they have pretty horrible reviews- to the point where a twenty dollar gamble makes me fret the fret. Do yall have any suggestions? I'm not opposed to DIY rigs or spending some time on this, but if I cant fret some nice tails for fourty bucks or less, that things going on a list addressed to the north pole for old Chris Cringle and Ill suppress my neanderthal tendencies for a bit and settle for my router and DT jig... as much as tham makes me feel... rather pedestrian.</p>
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Thanks Guys,</p>