Found this ebay auction for a brain teaser double dovetail. Has anyone
even seen this before?

Please copy and paste or look for ebay auction 6999229419


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ttp%3A% 2F%2F
search.ebay.com%3A80%2Fws%2Fsearch%2FSaleSearch%3F sofocus%3Dbs%26satitle
%3D6999229419%2509%26sacat%3D-1%2526catref%253DC5%26amp%253Bsspagename
%3Dh%253Ah%253Aadvsearch%253AUS%26from%3DR7%26nojs pr%3Dy%26
pfid%3D0%26fsop%3D1%2526fsoo%253D1%26fcl%3D3%26frp p%3D50%26fvi%3D1

On 13 Jan 2006 10:46:14 -0800, "bdeditch" wrote:

Found this ebay auction for a brain teaser double dovetail. Has anyone
even seen this before?

There's a show on Saturday TV with a redhead guy (Roy Underhill) who
works with only 'period' tools and does everything by hand (can't
think of the show's name). He made one in a past episode although not
as pretty as this one.

Pete

IIRC -- the surgeon was the kids mom! ;-)

"DAC" wrote in message
ups.com...
IIRC -- the surgeon was the kids mom! ;-)

I thought it was the kid's father? Oh wait, it was Roy Underhill's trick on
The Woodwright's Shop.

John

On 13 Jan 2006 10:46:14 -0800, "bdeditch" wrote:

Found this ebay auction for a brain teaser double dovetail. Has anyone
even seen this before?

Please copy and paste or look for ebay auction 6999229419

It's been posted before, previously there wasn't the "window" in the
tails. My best guess is the light colored piece is not solid in the
joint. There's just a thin strip at the top which would allow it to
flex enough to slip over the tails.

The addition of the window would appear to disprove this, but the
piece in the window isn't necessarily connected to the rest of it.


-Leuf

wrote:

On 13 Jan 2006 10:46:14 -0800, "bdeditch" wrote:


Found this ebay auction for a brain teaser double dovetail. Has anyone
even seen this before?


There's a show on Saturday TV with a redhead guy (Roy Underhill) who
works with only 'period' tools and does everything by hand (can't
think of the show's name). He made one in a past episode although not
as pretty as this one.

Pete
The Woodwright Shop

Dave

bdeditch wrote:
Found this ebay auction for a brain teaser double dovetail. Has anyone
even seen this before?

Please copy and paste or look for ebay auction 6999229419


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ttp%3A% 2F%2F
search.ebay.com%3A80%2Fws%2Fsearch%2FSaleSearch%3F sofocus%3Dbs%26satitle
%3D6999229419%2509%26sacat%3D-1%2526catref%253DC5%26amp%253Bsspagename
%3Dh%253Ah%253Aadvsearch%253AUS%26from%3DR7%26nojs pr%3Dy%26
pfid%3D0%26fsop%3D1%2526fsoo%253D1%26fcl%3D3%26frp p%3D50%26fvi%3D1


This is a better way to post URL's:

URL:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6999229419&ru=http%3A% 2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2F%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll %3Ffrom%3DR40%26satitle%3D6999229419%26fvi%3D1

JES

In article , legend65
@dontemailme.com says...
On 13 Jan 2006 10:46:14 -0800, "bdeditch" wrote:

Found this ebay auction for a brain teaser double dovetail. Has anyone
even seen this before?

Please copy and paste or look for ebay auction 6999229419

It's been posted before, previously there wasn't the "window" in the
tails. My best guess is the light colored piece is not solid in the
joint. There's just a thin strip at the top which would allow it to
flex enough to slip over the tails.

The addition of the window would appear to disprove this, but the
piece in the window isn't necessarily connected to the rest of it.

-Leuf

Sorry- no strips, no fancy key things, just basic jointery and a little
bit of chemistry, biology, and physics.

I've got a couple in process, but am having a bit of trouble with lack
of proper tools to make the handcut dovetails.

e-mail me offline for the answer if you really want it vbg

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JES wrote:
bdeditch wrote:

Found this ebay auction for a brain teaser double dovetail. Has anyone
even seen this before?

Please copy and paste or look for ebay auction 6999229419


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ttp%3A% 2F%2F

search.ebay.com%3A80%2Fws%2Fsearch%2FSaleSearch%3F sofocus%3Dbs%26satitle
%3D6999229419%2509%26sacat%3D-1%2526catref%253DC5%26amp%253Bsspagename
%3Dh%253Ah%253Aadvsearch%253AUS%26from%3DR7%26nojs pr%3Dy%26
pfid%3D0%26fsop%3D1%2526fsoo%253D1%26fcl%3D3%26frp p%3D50%26fvi%3D1


This is a better way to post URL's:

URL:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6999229419&ru=http%3A% 2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2F%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll %3Ffrom%3DR40%26satitle%3D6999229419%26fvi%3D1


JES

or even:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6999229419

since all you need is the item number.

er
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Enoch Root wrote:

or even:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6999229419

Now I'm just showing off, but here's an even shorter way to post links:

http://tinyurl.com/ex74q



Kevin.

Found this ebay auction for a brain teaser double dovetail. Has anyone
even seen this before?


Doesn't even seem to be a mystery to me, look at the second and third pictures,
you can plainly see the seams where the wood was glued together.

--
Alex - "newbie_neander" woodworker
cravdraa_at-yahoo_dot-com
not my site: http://www.e-sword.net/

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:13:26 -0800, "AAvK" wrote:


Found this ebay auction for a brain teaser double dovetail. Has anyone
even seen this before?


Doesn't even seem to be a mystery to me, look at the second and third pictures,
you can plainly see the seams where the wood was glued together.

Pretty sure that's just the grain. It doesn't say it this time but
the last time it came up the auction stated 2 pieces and no hidden
splits.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6976867662

I guess it did have the windows then too, they looked like a peg going
through with the quality of the pics.

Google archive of the group's responses from last time:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.w...44820ec4bb96e/


-Leuf

In article ,
says...

Sorry- no strips, no fancy key things, just basic jointery and a little
bit of chemistry, biology, and physics.

I've got a couple in process, but am having a bit of trouble with lack
of proper tools to make the handcut dovetails.

e-mail me offline for the answer if you really want it vbg

Just found out today that my munged email address was over-munged and I
forgot a letter in the darn thing. It has been repaired. Apologies to
any who attempted to email me for the solution and got a bounce. Mea
maxima culpa.

Working on building a couple of these, will have some pics maybe by
Sunday night.

Sorry again about the bad address,
vic
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Kevin wrote:
Enoch Root wrote:


or even:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6999229419


Now I'm just showing off, but here's an even shorter way to post links:

http://tinyurl.com/ex74q

Some of us won't (for fear of goatsecx) click on those thingies.

er
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email not valid

Enoch Root wrote:

This is a better way to post URL's:

URL:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6999229419&ru=http%3A% 2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2F%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll %3Ffrom%3DR40%26satitle%3D6999229419%26fvi%3D1


JES

or even:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6999229419

since all you need is the item number.


The point was that the foolproof way to post URL's is to add
URL...... around the link.

JES

In article , JES wrote:

This is a better way to post URL's:

URL:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ru=http%3A% 2
F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2F%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll %3Ffrom%3DR40%26satitle%3D6999
229419%26fvi%3D1

If you want to point to a specific item on eBay, this is even better:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6999229419

IOW... Locate the first "&" after "&item=", and remove it and everything
following.

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It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.