On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:51:17 -0600, Jeff Cooper
wrote:

Wes Stewart wrote:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:23:49 GMT, miey wrote:


Comments welcome.


I don't know what "this Baltic Birch" you refer to, but my admittedly
limited experience says no.

The usual tearout problem with solid stock is blowout when the
dovetail bit exits the work piece. That can be mitigated with a
backer board.

What I've seen with the plywood is tearout on the front side when the
bit enters the work and grabs and tears the face lamination.

All of this assumes, of course that you are routing the DTs.


That has been my experince too with trying to route dovetails into 1/2"
baltic birch. I ended up using a 45 degree drawer lock bit like:
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...=1,46168,46174

That provided a decent surface for gluing and seems reasonably strong.
Dovetails would look nicer, but for simple drawers where appearance
isn't a major concern, this works.

I wanted appearance, so I gave up and did the right thing and used
poplar. [g]

Wes