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It's a pretty easy project. Step 1: Choosing the right lumberShow All ItemsI chose Cedar for this project, it's a great outdoor wood that holds up well. « PreviousNext »View All Steps DownloadYour browser is out of date This website will not look or function as originally intended in your current browser We recommend upgrading to the latest version of Which choice is right for you? Discover the best possible hardware for the job.Comparing the strength of a dovetail joint to a box joint On a visit to Busy Bee Tools, I noticed they had a dovetail jig for just $50. I had been thinking of buying a dovetail jig for some time, and for that price, I figured it was worth a try. It turned out, I still needed the router template bushing set, but I managed to get one of those for $12 at The Home Depot. I made a few test joints until I got the adjustments right. Getting a dovetail joint that really fits is quite satisfying, especially the way it locks together even without
making dovetail joints with this jig was perhaps a bit much work, and is it really worthSo I decided to do a test joint of a dovetail joint vs my favourite kind of joint for corners - the old fashioned box joint. The advantage of a box joint is that it can be cut on the table saw with a dado blade. Once set up, this goes much faster. Plus, you can cut a whole stack of work pieces all at once, so when making a number of box joints, things go relatively quickly. I used my home made tenon jig to make the joint, because it has enough range of movement to allow doing this (unlike theThe other thing about the home made jig is that the screw has 10 turns per inch, so to space the 1/4" wide cuts 1/2" apart, was just a matter of turning five turns between the successive fingers. I used 1/4" fingers, whereas the dovetails are 1/2" wide. I figured this was only fair seeing that the box joint is still much quicker to cut at that spacing. I hav since built fancy box joint jig that can
cut this joint even better. I stacked three pieces - the two halves of the joint, plus a scrap piece to avoid tearout, and cut them all at once. I tested the joints by pressing the box apart from the inside. I used three wedges on the inside of the box to force it apart. And here is the test setup, with the wedges in the box. The back of the box has no joint at all, just a spacer and a C clamp to keep the box from folding open. I wanted to test the joints for pull apart. The idea was to test the dovetail joint in the direction that its strongest in. It took some surprisingly vigorous pounding on the wedge to cause one of the joints to fail. I started by pounding the wedge with a wooden mallet, but switched to a heavier steel hammer before I got the joint to budge. Really, both of these joints are quite strong. But as you can see, the dovetail joint is the one that failed first. The way the joint failed is that the dovetail part of the pins simply sheared off.
wood itself, not the glue ended up failing. The dovetail had the disadvantage of having fewer fingers than the box joint and not having the fingers go all the way through the piece of wood. Of course, if I had made a box joint which exactly the same contact area as the dovetail joint, the dovetail joint would most likely have won. But the thing is, it's so much easier to make box joints go all the way through. For this test, the box joint proved stronger. Plus, the box joint is strong in both directions, whereas the dovetails are useful only for pulling from one piece, but not the other. So really, to use a dovetail joint for the sake of strength is obsolete, mostly on account of the strength of wood glues. I think the main reason to use dovetail joints nowadays is for their looks. Fact is, for drawers, I have mostly just used nailed rabbet joints which are not nearly as strong as either joint, and I have never had one fail.