POV TailSpin Tools Video Request

Recently I heard from a customer named David down in Florida. He wanted to know if I had any video of our dovetail marking tools being used from the perspective of the user, rather than seen from an observer’s viewpoint.

After digging around I found a few spots in our video collection with snippets from essentially an overhead view but nothing of substantial length. David’s request made perfect sense. As I re-watched some videos I realized that the view from the outside did not really show how simple the manipulation of the tools is in real time.

As it turns out I recently built myself a new sharpening cabinet to accommodate my new Tormek T-8 Black. After living with it for a couple of months one of the spaces was calling out to become a drawer instead of an open shelf. I cut some stock for the drawer and mounted a camera up high looking down from over my left shoulder. Mostly I managed to stayed out of frame.

I milled the stock and cut the parts to size in advance. Follow along as I lay out the spacing, mark out the pins and the tails together, cut the lines, and remove the waste. A drawer is just a box sized to an opening. Click here if you’d like to see a deeper dive into how to layout a dovetailed box.

At the end of the video you’ll see the joint slip together “straight off the saw”. There was no paring or cleanup, and the fit is excellent. As always. the one thing you won’t see is the tedious process of transferring layout marks from one side of the joint to the other.

Thanks for the input David, I hope this helps!