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    NO. 81 NOTES FROM THE SHOP $3.95 JOINERY: HAND-C Prey ay TKS SER Sleaanced © ENTERTAINMENT CENTER & STATIONERY BOX ff EDITOR’ S CODUMN Sawdust {I were to say the word dovetails, it would conjure up all sorts of mental images. Probably the lst image onthe lst ‘would be that of ancient Eaypt. Thad the chance to go through the Metropolitan Musuem of Artin New York a ‘couple of years ago. One of my favorite pas- timesis studying the sculpture artworkand architecture of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. The Met has a huge section on an- ‘cient Egypt. I spent hours wandering i ‘Aslwaslooking atacolletion of wooden ‘coffins from ancient Egypt youcanimagine the smile that crossed my face when In0- ticed some were joined with dovetails. ‘There's tendency to think of dovetails 23 old. the kind of old that means 1700's or 18007 Not thousands of years B.C. Granted, the ancient Egyptians used fairly basic dovetal joinery. But I suppose the process they used to Tay out and cut dovetails was not much different than how wwe doit today. Nothing new under the sun, Orsol thought. ‘When webegan work onthe article show: {ng how to cut dovetails by hand for this issue, I thought the generally accepted method was pretty close to the way T had ddoneitfor yeas. ButlTeamed acouple new techniques this time around. Firs, | discovered how valuable a guide fence can be when chopping out the pins ‘and tails along the baseline (page 29). But the most important change came ‘rom Ken Munkel, our Design Director. It hastodo withhow thetalsarelaidoutusing the pins. Thad not seen his method before, bbutitdoes make foramore accurate layout (Gee Figs. 1,2, 3 page 27.) For those wito really get nto details, the ‘ld method has you cu the pins first, and then you hold the ends ofthe pins perpen-

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