Tips for Cutting Half Blind Dovetails Part 1, with Tim Rousseau

Special guest Tim Rousseau shows us some great tricks for cutting this beautiful joint.
For more details on the tools featured in this Tips Video check out these links:
For Saws: www.lie-nielsen...
For the Dovetail Saw: www.lie-nielsen...
For the Hand Scraper: www.lie-nielsen...
For Chisels: www.lie-nielsen...

[@grkuntzmd]

Very nice video! I just so happen to be in the middle of chopping out some half-blind dovetails for a pair of nightstand drawers, and your video will help a lot.

[@briarfox637]

Rob Cosman has a piece of saw blade attached to a handle. The blade is the same as the saw so the width is the same. He uses that instead of a card scraper. Its a good tip. I prefer Paul Sellers method of cutting these half-blinds though. Very accurate, precise, and satisfying. Good video. Tim, you are a great craftsman.

[@terrizittritsch745]

Tim, thank you for the great tips and technique. I'd been trying every technique under fine woodworking, but I seemed to be missing the mark (I'm sure it was my inability to execute). But with your methods, I improved my results 100% on my first try. The most valuable were cutting pins on the scribe line with a very fine and thin saw, using a sharpened card scraper to do the blind corners and chopping out the pins with your methods). Thank you for sharing!

[@SoundsToBlowYourMind]

Great tips using a piece of wood to register the chisel against when paring into the end grain of the board. Couldn't you also use a block of wood across the face of the board in line with your knife line when you clamp the board down to the bench ? That will prevent you from marking the board with the clamp and give you another surface to register against when cutting down into the face.

[@GuillaumeVachon]

Awesome tips there!

[@liferocks1987]

I have given up on my dovetail jig and started making hand cut dovetails. Tim, you have amazing skill. Your techniques and tips are working beautifully for me. I will definitely be looking for more of your vids on the internet. Where else can I find them?

[@smfield]

Thanks for the great tips!

[@specideal]

우와~! 정말 굉장한 솜씨입니다. 많이 배워갑니다~^^

[@deezynar]

I like the idea of using a piece of wood to guide the paring. Let me offer you a bit of advice for 1/2 blind dovetails: get a fishtail chisel.

[@bedevere007]

Nice

[@tapsarautanen]

He had to show the sponsor's saw but what he likes is his legacy one...

[@buddabing6660]

Be careful about your edges. that is the key to good joinery, and keeping gaps unvisible.

[@buddabing6660]

all these videos fail to mention, when doing a mortise, you should start short of your length. if you go long in any way, your mortise will be visible when you fit the tenon.

[@mcguire2028]

Godamn, I like my dovetail jig. Same results in 30 seconds.