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Okay, so what we have got here, see I tore up some of that tape and look how clean those cuts are now. Okay now it is also important to note the technique that I was using I made the cuts. I would like to start especially on these wider ones these are like a single pass on the outside and these half ends. But, whether they are a little bit wider, we use the same technique when we do the pins with our straight bit. I would like to do a climb cut. I am going in the direction that you normally do not go with a router and a bit because it is in the same direction as the motion of the bit itself.
But, in this case, it is a controlled circumstance so I just grease the front and I go from right to left and that basically scores that front area. Maybe one or two passes like that then I go back to the right side, plunge through, come back out then back to the left side and plunge through it to get the rest of it. So it is kind of a little systematic approach but what it results in is a nice clean cut like that and that is exactly what we are looking for. This is gorgeous. That is a number one, top class, prime, choice cuts.
So now, with the inside still facing out, I am going to flip my board over and I am going to put my tails on the other side and I am going to do this for all of my front and back door pieces and then the tails are done. I do not have to touch them again.
From that point, we work on the pins and that will help us finesse the fit. Now, I have all of my tail pieces cut, they all came out really nice actually. So now it is time to cut the pin pieces. Now, we are going to flip our template over so that we can do our pins. That is all it is, we just flip it over. These are already set exactly where we need them to be. This is going to be a lot easier than that.
Flip it over, I am going to put it here on a setting on my little gage that the manufacturer recommends you start at and all the finesse fit, all the little detailed work that we are going to do to make sure this is a dead on accurate fit is going to be done using the scale up here. And we are just basically pull that template in and out and make those pins wider or narrower to perfect our fit. The other thing we could do at this time is we could set the bit height. We can actually use the same, exact technique that we used last time, except for, instead of using a pin piece to mark our tails we are using a tail piece to mark our pins. So do not get too caught up in the terminology. It all makes sense as we are going through it.
So I hold. Let us make sure this piece is all that we have. Now, incidentally, as I am doing this, you will notice, I have marked this as my test piece. This is a piece of material that has been milled through the same exact processes, all of my pieces and it basically represents a perfect test piece so that I can finesse the fit and get a perfect fit. I could do this 20 or 30 times just cutting away the messed up dovetails each and every time until I get the perfect fit that goes perfectly with these tails.
Alright, so let us take our tail piece once again, write up against those fingers. Nice, sharp pencil gives us a good pencil line. I got my strip at here and the 7 1/16 bushing here. again I could have just used the rounder that I used before but I happened to have a second rounder and I would like to use it so that that one can stay set up just in case I need - I do not know maybe I screwed something up but it should be fine. But just in case for convenience, I am going to use my second rounder. We use the plunge mechanism to set the high and once again, we are going to envision splitting that line in half. Alright.
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