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Cutting dovetails, how hard can it be...
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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 633031" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>you are right about costs, but when building machinery and fitting all those pieces together things are a little different. Most dovetails had to be scraped in to a male master, and then rescraped to fit the other part. A milling machine will drive you nuts when you have to master all those piece together. You don't get that from a single point machine. Grinding something that will them be scraped in is even worse.</p><p> </p><p> I personally liked to cut most dovetails 6" and shorter in a wire edm if possible. A good CNC machine center would really cut those dovetails nicely (also fast). Still you'd be amazed at how fast those dove tails can be cut with a G&E shaper once you learn the game. The tool holders from Alorus look like they were either single pointed or else broached (probably broached) in one pass. It would take abbout 90 secounds to cut the dovetail in a tool holder with a broach</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 633031, member: 25383"] you are right about costs, but when building machinery and fitting all those pieces together things are a little different. Most dovetails had to be scraped in to a male master, and then rescraped to fit the other part. A milling machine will drive you nuts when you have to master all those piece together. You don't get that from a single point machine. Grinding something that will them be scraped in is even worse. I personally liked to cut most dovetails 6" and shorter in a wire edm if possible. A good CNC machine center would really cut those dovetails nicely (also fast). Still you'd be amazed at how fast those dove tails can be cut with a G&E shaper once you learn the game. The tool holders from Alorus look like they were either single pointed or else broached (probably broached) in one pass. It would take abbout 90 secounds to cut the dovetail in a tool holder with a broach gary [/QUOTE]
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