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Cleaning up hand cut dovetails with a router.

1.1K views 1 reply 2 participants last post by  shipwright  
#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
At my age and cutting a lot of dovetails, this guy may be on to something. I tried this once on some red oak and it didn't work out to well for me. It could have just been me,.

 
#2 ·
When you count setup time for the router, not much advantage if you have a good fretsaw and know how to use it.
…. but it does seem to work for him on large dovetails.