Dovetail Key Joint. This makes it difficult to pull the joint apart and virtually impossible when glue is added. Perhaps no other joint has more strength or better looks than a corner joined by through dovetails. Sliding dovetails and dovetail keys are close cousins of the traditional joint.
Here is a project i developed with þórarinn b.b.
The 'dovetail joint' is very strong because of the way the 'tails' and 'pins' are shaped. Making dovetail keys at the router table. Double dovetailed tongue and groove joint. Gunnarsson at ísafjörður fablab, iceland.after watching cncwoodworker's video on youtube we decided to try and make our. Dovetail keys reinforce notoriously weak miter joints much like straight splines, but with flair. The 'dovetail joint' is very strong because of the way the 'tails' and 'pins' are shaped. But sometimes mitered joints need reinforcement, so i add dovetail keys at the corners. This dovetail joint jig allows cutting straight and through joints right on a router table or with a table templates are the key elements of dovetail jigs as they define the variety of joints that can be made.
