Australopithecus scobis wrote in
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Greetings,
Just got Ian Kirby's "The Complete Dovetail" from interlibrary
loan. In the description of the double lap dovetail he says to
cut the
rabbet with a rabbet plane. This provoked my question: Why plane out
the rabbet; why not cut it with a saw, and then trim with a plane?
Seems that planing the whole thing is a lot of work with ugly tear-out
risks.


Don't you think you need some kind of excuse to buy a minty old Stanley 78?
I mean, don't most addicts have to justify their addiction?

Patriarch,
who has also been known to use a tailed routah first, and sometimes, even,
instead of..