Making a twisted dovetail box

Luis — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:11:16 +0000

Here is another great article by John Bullar, once again featuring fantastic joinery.

These twisted dovetails (or nejiri arigata in Japanese) will give any piece an exquisite handmade look.

And not only these dovetails look great, they will handle pulling forces both sideways and lengthways.

Dovetail nirvana

Luis — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:28:00 +0000

A while back, while doing some research on dovetailed carcass construction I came across this article by John Bullar.

I kept the original link in one of my Firefox tabs but it seems that it is no longer available. *

Luckily there is the Internet Archive… pretty amazing!

I’ve seen some crazy dovetailed projects, but this one beats them all!

There are a total of 120 dovetails in this piece, and if that wasn’t enough, every other pin is 1/3 shorter to add visual interest to the joint.

* The article is available again at it’s original location. (edited on 26-Mar-2008)