Asymmetrical Through Dovetails on the Leigh Super Jig

[gee-dub]

Someone asked for some more pics on this.  I would hardly call this a tutorial and the Leigh site has a lot of info but, here's how I do it.

The green tape shows the fingers that are in use.  This tape like some other things that follow are just there to help show things.  That is, I don't put tape on the fingers when I am doing this normally.

Leigh has what I thought was a cryptic method of marking their boards.  I realize now that my method is just as cryptic.  Mark your boards in the way that makes sense to you.  The important function is that you know which end of which board is which, which way is up, and which face is out.  I mark my boards so that the marked face is always AWAY from the jig.

A few more views.

Here is a tail board in the left position.  I am cutting the edge I have previously marked as "L1".  I cut the tails on this end.

Keeping the same face out I rotate the board 180 degrees and install it on the right side of the jig.  I cut the tails on this other end of the first board.

Here is a pin board in the left position.  I am preparing to cut the "L1" PIN board end that will mate with the previously cut "L1" TAIL board end.  I cut these pins.

Again keeping the same face out I rotate this PIN board 180 degrees and install it on the right side of the jig. I cut these pins.

Rinse and repeat for the other parts and here they are after cutting in the same orientation as the second picture in this thread.

So the end of the PIN board labeled "L2" on the outside face goes into the TAIL board labeled "L2" on the inside face.

In this instance I am doing the same for the parts labeled "R1".

Install the other TAIL board.

And here is the one I just made next to the one I made yesterday.  I hope this may help someone wanting to do something similar.

There is of course the question "why the wide tail?".  These will be hinged lid boxes and the wide tail is where I will separate the top from the bottom.

[treeslayer]

Thanks for posting @gee-dub very well done and really speaks to the versatility of the jig and of course the operator, we’ll done and great looking boxes 

[Chestnut]

Awesome write up. These jigs area great i have the PC4200 one and like it. For batching out large quantities these jigs are hard to beat.

Having a good system for hand cutting them leaves me debating which is faster for smaller quantities.

21 hours ago, gee-dub said:

There is of course the question "why the wide tail?". 

Is this leading up to a platypus walks into a bar joke? Or maybe a beaver walks into a bar joke.