By the way, he tells the tale that at 15, he became an apprentice to his
father.  He says that on that day, he "lost a father and gained a master."
He built packing crates, that were held together with dovetails.  He had to
make so many per day and was paid per piece.  That's how he learned how to
crank out functioning dovetails quickly.  You'll note that his 3-minute
dovetails are not the most lovely things and certainly not fine-furniture
grade, but they do function.  When he's doing furniture grade dovetails he
does it a bit differently and more slowly, as you can see in his "dovetail a
drawer" video.

- Bill T.

-----Original Message-----
From: oldtools-bounces@r...
[mailto:oldtools-bounces@r...] On Behalf Of Kirk Eppler
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:00 PM
Cc: oldtools
Subject: Re: [OldTools] Re: 3-Minute Dovetails

Frank Sronce wrote:
> http://popularwoodworking.com/klausz
That's embarrassing.  I can spend 10x that long on my practice tails,
and they don't look that good.  I'd rumors about this technique, but
never looked for it.

Back to building dovetailed boxes to store my crap til they don't look
like crap.......................... (tm I forget who)

--
Kirk Eppler in HMB, CA
Process Development Engineering
Eppler.Kirk@g...

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