Then, with Tenon orDovetail Saw, cut off just outside the line.
It is in the laying out of the more complicated dovetail joints that the highest skill is required, because exactness is of more importance in this work than in any other article in joinery.
In order to do this work accurately follow out the examples given, and you will soon be able to make a beautiful dovetail corner, and do it quickly.
The core discs are in segments and are attached to the frame by dovetail joints as shown.
The teeth are provided withdovetail grooves near the circumference.
They are then assembled on a laminated spider, being held in place by dovetail joints made tight by the use of taper keys.
Wagner revolving field of 300 kilowatt alternator during construction, illustrating the method of attaching the field magnets to the hub by dovetail joints.
Dovetail joints obviate the use of through bolts which, if not insulated, are liable to give rise to eddy currents by short circuiting the discs.
Dovetail joints are sometimes used instead of through bolts, as in figs.
Wagner cast steel hub with dovetail grooves for attaching the revolving field magnets.
With but very few exceptions the poles are attached by dovetail projections that fit into corresponding slots.
In both cases the inductors are held in place by wedges driven into dovetail grooves.
Project the lines D A and C B upwards as at 1, and on to this drawing (1), set out the dovetail according to your own idea of length, width and bevel.
Care must be exercised whilst cutting away the core to ensure the chisel being held nearly perpendicular; if too much lead (or bevel) be given, a faulty and undercut dovetail will be the result.
As the most general use of the dovetail is for this and similar purposes, we shall therefore deal fully with the methods of marking out and the making of this class of joint.
With the tenon or dovetail saw cut down the line K to the required depth, and carefully pare away the wood with a sharp chisel to the correct shape.
The dovetail tongue tapers slightly throughout its entire length, gripping the joint on the principle of the wedge and squeezing the glue into the pores of the wood.
Halved Joint," the pieces at one end showing a double dovetail (Fig.
Tee Halving Joint" with a dovetailcut on the edge.
The object of this block, which is kept specially for the purpose, is to form a guide for those who have not full control of the dovetail saw; the back of the saw clears the hole, and the required bevel is obtained.
This is a strong joint, used where outside strain is likely to occur in the top piece, the dovetail preventing the rail from being drawn away from the shoulder.
Lay the piece of wood which is to have the dovetail marked on it flat upon the bench, and take the piece with the dovetail pins cut upon it and place in the position shown at Fig.
The very length of the catalogue is apt to kill the beauty as one endeavours to dovetail the separate elements.
The poet therefore does not attempt to dovetail his picture of the human form with descriptive details, but relies upon imagery, suggestion, or other artifice, to indicate his meaning in the most rapid way possible.
To do this you must dovetail your incidents into a playlet plot; but how far should you think out your playlet before beginning to set it down on paper?
Right's right and wrong's wrong, and there ain't a carpenter in this world that can dovetail the two.
There is another most useful saw it would be of advantage for the young carpenter to have, namely, the dovetail saw.
When this is done you have to proceed to a nice little job, namely, to dovetail the corners together, so as to form your box.
He thought it was not possible that the one class of banks could dovetail into the other; and if it was, it was not desirable.
This single dovetail was followed by a box dovetail joint comprising three dovetails on one piece, as shown in Fig.
The making of joints just for practice may not be very interesting, but in the case of the dovetail it is decidedly advisable.
For fine cabinet work, the dovetail joint makes the most satisfactory method of fastening, but Harry was not yet skilled enough to do the fine work it demanded.
Single open dovetail for two pieces at right angles.
This short description meant the fitting of four box dovetails, or twelve individual dovetail joints, and it took considerable time.
The object is to dovetailthe cement, to be used in filling up the opening to the foundation, and it can be done roughly.
The dovetail joint used in box design] The process was as follows: Sides squared up and tested.
The form of the dovetail appeared in knife lines on the end of piece b.
Piece b was next fastened upright in the vise, piece a being laid over b in a horizontal position, and the form of the dovetail scribed with a knife point.
This form resists pulling apart and is a combination of lap and dovetail joints.
The work is driven by a V-shaped dovetail piece having a hand-nut adjustment, which also centers the pin by the cheek or web.
It is also essential to use a tool having a keen edge, and the toolslide should work freely but be closely adjusted to the dovetail of the lower slide.
The rim of the spider is provided with dovetail notches into which fit similarly shaped internal projections on the core segments.
The rim here consists of four sections each of which has two dovetail notches.
The sheet metal ring sections containing the teeth are fastened into dovetail notches in the spider as shown.
Built up core with four spoke spider, each spoke carrying two dovetail notches In this construction a little more air space is obtained for ventilation than where a separate spoke is provided for each notch.
The qualities for exhibition purposes are soberness, not too much individuality or variety, qualities that dovetail their single part with other single-part pictures, so as to make a pleasing harmony of the whole.
On the periphery of the case is turned a dovetail shoulder, which slides around in a corresponding groove in the quadrant-shaped base.
The square end of the handle has a dovetail groove into which the tang of the file is fitted.
Another method of securing the teeth in the mortises is to dovetailthem at the small end and drive wedges between them, as shown in Fig.
The tool fits into a dovetail groove in the split end of the holder, and is ground taper in thickness to give the necessary clearance on the sides.
This setting will enlarge the feather seat or recess, so that the wide part of the dovetail on the feather will just pass in (the dotted lines shown in Fig.
If it be required to dovetail a box together, get out four pieces for the sides and ends, to be of the full length and width respectively of the box outside.
Then mark and cut out the pins as on the piece A; the dovetail openings in B are traced from the pins in A.
The manner in which little circumstances dovetail into one another in the Gospels is only consistent with their historical character.
For example, split dowels, wedged dovetail fashion like wedged tenons, are often very useful (see Mortising).
We can dovetail many pieces of wood together and make the unity of an article of furniture, but we cannot dovetail items together and make a tree.
A Dovetail Joint [29] The illustration shows an unusual dovetail joint, which, when put together properly is a puzzle.
Cut the dovetail on one end of each stick as shown in Fig.
The bottom glass should be a good fit, but the sides and ends should be made slightly shorter to allow the cement, E, to form a dovetail joint as shown.
A Dovetail Joint Puzzle [236] A simple but very ingenious example in joinery is illustrated.
It will be seen that the dovetail is a tenon, shaped as a wedge, and it is this distinguishing feature which gives it great strength irrespective of glue or screws.
Well, certainly the evidence does dovetail in, and the doctors may have been wrong in this instance.
If you'd had as much practice as I've had in dealing with humanity, you'd find it was an ever-increasing astonishment to see the way things dovetail in.
His brain twisted the story this way and that, striving to dovetail it into his own circumstances.
Each that the girl had supplied might dovetail in as he would have it go; upon the other hand it fitted equally well when twisted into the form in which, for all he knew, she might have constructed it.
But it is still a mystery, an awful mystery, that two people should meet as we are meeting now in one and the same dream--should dovetail so accurately into each other's brains.
