My first attempt at hand cut dovetails.

[Coyote Jim]

I don't know what I get out of posting this here other than warm fuzzies. But here it goes.

So I made my first attempt at hand cut dovetails. I cheated and used a magnetic saw guide.

The plan was to make a "dovetail box". I pretty much followed the directions from Paul Sellers' video. One large dovetail per joint.

This was my very first one which actually turned out to be my best one:

Here is a picture before glue up:

The worst one by far was the third joint. That thing was a hot mess.

I was able to glue and clamp it enough to make it at least look passable.

Gluing it up was as far as I got. I live in Arizona and my garage was becoming a furnace so I did not plane or sand the joints yet. I'll do that if there is a cool enough evening.

Thanks for having a look.

[Chestnut]

Looks better than my first attempt though you'll never see it because i never took pictures and have since burned the pieces.

Keep it up man your flying through the woodworking skills.

[Jim Harvey]

Looks like the boards had a bit of twist.