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Originally Posted by vernon2647 Some years ago I saw plans for a very well made dovetail jig/machine, in a 15-20 page non-glossy woodworking periodical. |
That sounds like shopnotes magazine.
The one in PW was for half blind dovetails, I'm sure you were thinking of thru dovetails. It's the Jan 04 issue.
Basically, you take a piece of scrap the same width as your stock and lay out the spacing of your tails. Use a dado stack or a router bit set to 11/16ths to plow out where you marked the tails. put a template guide and dovetail bit in your router and cut the pins in your stock by following the template you just made.
Use the pins you just cut to transfer the layout of the tails and cut them out with a bandsaw or backsaw.
It might work for thru dovetails as well.
just a thought,