Rob Cosman's 3 1/2 minute "Tails 1st" dovetail

Ah, I just watched it again - you used pine but how did you avoid fibre breakout when chiselling back the shoulder lines so rapidly?

Impressive Rob! I would like to know what wood you used. A native species?
Jeremy Broun

When I first learned to hand cut dovetails, I made a period spice box. There were 56 half blind and 56 through dovetails for all the drawers. Because it became so tedious, the project took nearly a year.

This would take me more like 3.5 hours.

Handy tip on using the plane as a levelled rest when marking the tail board against the pin board.

Damn, I'm impressed

Awesome

Must be some sort of robot wood working machine.

Why do we have to do dovetails so fast again?

So we can make money with our trade but at the same time use hand tools D:

yeah- I want to see the whole drawer put together in record time. I see a lot of "X" minute dovetails, but I want to see if the whole thing can be put together in short order.
this was really great, btw. those tools look like they were sharpened by elves or something- really scary.