1873 to trick a little clearance between halves so they'll slide together with room for glue. 3/16' end mill, but I change the diameter to. One cut with the board flat and the other cut with the board clamped vertically. Both male and female halves of the joint in the file. So far I haven't seen the same joint done twice.ДЄttached is a pseudo-dovetail joint I drew up to demonstrate to my students.

I require two unique joint of the students design on a small box.

All we use is Aspire but nothing done that couldn't be done in VCarve. I teach a class on digital furniture production and we have a finger/box joint assignment. With a little experience and a way to clamp vertical you don't need anything more than V-Carve to make conventional or amazingly unique corner joints on a CNC. There was a lesson to be learned in that process for me. I had the great privilege to visit the workshop of one of our board members a few months back, Russel Crawford, and was amazed at the set up and jigs he had for producing his fabulous stools and rockers, but was even more amazed at the amount of time he spent post CNC to caress the material into the desired final form. There is nothing like having the machine do the carving I could never do to use as an accent piece in a project that turns it from just great to WOW but the real work is in the details that you do by hand. Let the CNC do the heavy lifting and repeatable production stuff but don't let yourself get too far removed from the wood. Years ago when wood workers had such things as an apprentice it was the job of the apprentice to get things to a rough state then the seasoned artisan would do the final finish. They are not as perfect as a router table and jig will do it but those are reserved for when the hand crafted joint is not required.ДЄs for the CNC, it will do awesome stuff but use it where it makes sense. I can cut a complete set of acceptable dovetails for a drawer in about 45 minutes. A cup of coffee, a couple of Japanese chisels, a mallet and some 'toons is one heck of a great way to spend some time. If I am making an item for a customer that has drawers and it is a heritage piece then I will hand cut the dovetails as that is what the customer is looking for and what I enjoy doing. I love my new CNC but view it completely as another tool in the tool box to be used when it is required and when it makes sense.

Diy cnc dovetail