Morris Dovey (in ) said:

| Just to keep all of this interesting (and more than just hot air) I
| hand-coded a couple of part programs last night that should let me
| cut common, half-blind, and (non-mitered) full-blind dovetails
| using only a straight bit. Dovetail height, width, angle, and
| spacing are set as parameters; and the code self-adjusts for the
| size of bit used. What's fun is that there's no 'round' anywhere
| except in the corners, and use of a sufficiently small diameter bit
| should make that difficult to see.
|
| It'd be fun to build a small CNC joinery machine that could be
| dedicated to gnawing on the ends of boards like this. With a bit of
| luck, I'll have some pix to put on ABPW tonight. :-)
|
| Hi-ho, hi-ho, ...

As usual, everything takes longer and costs more. Photo of first
half-blind dovetails finally posted to abpw.

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html