Hello everyone, I am about three weeks out on my machine, hopefully, and have been looking for information on holding and cutting vertically. I have finished my table with a vise on one end, now just need some info going from drawing to production. I don’t like the “dog-bone” look on box joints, a…

You can’t make the sharp corners that a traditional dovetail joint would have but you could make a joint that’s close. If you didn’t mind cleaning up the corners with a chisel it would work. A box joint would probably be easier to do and with modern glue would still be a strong joint.

Vetric has a box gadget, that will cut dovetails with a board flat - but it does create ‘dogbones’ which makes it not great for ‘furniture grade’ projects. I’ve used it for shop stuff though, which works very well. I have created true dovetails on a vertical board, using a dovetail bit. Look furthe…

I was 75 percent into making my table before finding this forum. All I knew was, a tilting table/storage and dovetail and box joints were important for me. As a result maybe I have a different approach, time will tell if workable. I’m at the figuring out software stage! (Photos of dovetail pit idea…

Hi everybody, I’m reinstalling my 1F (upgraded Journeyman with QCW and 80mm 2.2k Splindle) and looking for an option on how to implement a vertical milling in one of those area of the qcw. Has anyone done or think on a solution? [image]

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thanks for the reply, finally added photos. Don’ think i would ever cut dove tails with the table in the vertical position but seems possible if a long board were properly supported. plan to take a close look at Joint Cam software.

Very nice! A little cleaner than what I set up. I hope everything is square for you, as making adjustments looks like it would be difficult. I was able to use Fusion 360 to make the CAM setup for cutting dovetails. Using their “Manufacturing Model” capability to pull apart a box into components for…

Ok Mike, you have inspired me to dive deep into Fusion 360. In two or more weeks I’ve learned to use parameters to put together a dovetail box in the design phase. Like the use of arbitrary size and number of dovetails to generate! Had to watch a video at least 50 times. Now the challenge, how to f…

I’ve had to step forwards/backwards a ton during those videos - they go fast! Or, I’m slow - one of the two. Here’s a video on manufacturing models - where you can “pull apart” the boards and create CAM paths for them separately: Fusion 360 - Auto arrange parts on sheet - YouTube Once you pull ap…

Box Joints and Dovetails

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WmColl46 (William) December 18, 2021, 2:59am 46

Thinking outside the box (table)

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