Hand cutting dovetails with an 1/8" chisel

[Jeff L Headley]

Why buy two single bevel chisels (angled left and right) when a small 1/8" will get in the corner just as well?

 

[msiemsen]

I'm with you Jeff!

 

[Jack Plane]

Ditto, but my 1/8" chisel is 1/4" wide.

 

[Jeff L Headley]

After sawing and marking the depth of the pins and tails. I will use my 1/8th" to start a channel and then 1/4" and then 3/8" and then 1/2" and then 3/4" and then 1". Each pairing about an 1/8th" upon the flat surface established before. Stay away from your primary line until final execution with your wider chisels

 

[dsredlin]

Jeff, do you have a 'close-up' photo of your R/L angled chisel?

 

[HSteier]

Is that the front of a lipped drawer? How did you cut the pins back to produce the lip? Sawn or chiseled?

Howard Steier

 

[Jeff Saylor]

I use small triangular files ground and sharpened as chisels to do this.