As dovetailing is chiefly used for drawer making, it will be of interest to give several illustrations of variations of the joint and its uses.
An alternative method of dovetailing is that of cutting the dovetails first, as shown at Fig.
Bevelled dovetailing when pins are at right angles to the end cut.
Lap-dovetailing the top of a wardrobe to the carcase end.
The dovetailing of the drawer back is shown at Fig.
This shows the necessity of bevelled dovetailing in order that the drawer front may be kept as thin and light as possible.
When dovetailing drawers or boxes it is necessary to square up the ends of all the stock and gauge them, as shown at Fig.
A third fact of significance is a dovetailing together of sea and land along an east-and-west direction.
Unless you have had considerable experience you had best be content with the simpler joints rather than to attempt dovetailing the corners, as shown in the cut.
Remove the wood as before, taking care not to cut on the wrong sides of the lines which mark the pins, or the dovetailing may come together too loosely.
Dovetailing is by far the best way, but it is difficult for the beginner (see Dovetailing).
Other forms involving bevelling and dovetailing are shown in Figs.
Mitre dovetailing (blind or secret dovetailing) is used in cases where it is desired to conceal the dovetails, the result looking like an ordinary mitred joint, but this is difficult work for the beginner.
Practised workmen in dovetailing usually (unless symmetry of the pins is required) determine the bevels for the pins of the first piece by eye, but the beginner would best not attempt to lay off angles or saw by eye.
On account of the dovetailing the wedges exert A pressure pressing the teeth into the mortises.
Suppose, now, the mass of the metal is removed, then the dovetailing is performed as follows: Next the setting or upsetting is proceeded with as shown in Fig.
Observe that there is no coincidence in the matter, no interlinking or dovetailing of chances.
A similar, though, of course, not quite identical, effect is produced by scenes of the utmost simplicity, in which there is no room for delicacy of dovetailing or neatness of manipulation.
Grand Old Man's genius for accommodation and ingenious dovetailing of Imperial interests will pull the country through.
His theory of Nationalist progress was four-square and complete, and showed a neat dovetailing of means with the end.
The natural theory is that here we detect clumsy dovetailing by a forger, who has cut a genuine letter into pieces, and inserted false matter.
Is this the result of clumsydovetailing by a forger?
With our present light, he holds, geological history seems to be a dovetailing together of the two ideas.
The dovetailing of the angle of our triangle in America is contingent upon the dovetailing of the angle of the triangle in Asia.
