A cute response. Maybe even not nice. But...

I find that a tenon will always do the job better and there is not the chance of blowing out
the dovetail -- it happens you know. Anyway, I would never leave a dovetail on the bottom of
anything -- I want no sign of how the piece was chucked or it is a failure as far as I'm
concerned. So, I'd have to reverse chuck and get rid of the dovetail. That said, I'd rather
get rid of a tenon.

I know that Raffin uses dovetails and leaves them that way on his work -- his logic is that
he can then rechuck and re-turn a piece at any time. I wonder how many times a customer has
brought a piece back to him to re-turn.

Bill

In article , george@least says...
Or - you don't know how....

"Bill Rubenstein" wrote in message
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Also, many of us refuse to use our chucks expanded into a recess. There
are better ways to
do it.