Dovetail Joints: How Tight is Too Tight?
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Last weekend I built a dovetailed campaign-style officer's trunk for the San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association and several of the members were shocked when I drove the carcase dovetails together. What was shocking to them was how tight my fit was between the tails and pins; it required a few hard whacks with a dead-blow mallet to seat the tails into the pins. The members asked me a lot []

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