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Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)
If someone figures out a secure and convenient way of accomplishing holding these parts in registration, please post.
Bill, I posted my method for this in June last year when building the Apothecary Chest.
Link: http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/ApothecaryChestWeekend8.html
While the drawers are not triangular, I had to deal with steep angles to fit a tightly curved bow-fronted chest.
What I realised was that there was another way to dovetail other than angling the baseline - instead find a way to square the baseline where the parts meet ...
Two corners of a triangle could be done like this ..
There were two strategies that helped hold the tail- to the pin board. The first was using blue tape to mark out - this requires a single light knife stroke to sever the tape and leave behind an outline. The second was coming up with an alternative to the "#140 trick" (rebate), made popular by Rob Cosman, who used this to align board ends. My alternative uses a couple of layers of blue tape to create a fence ...
The blue tape further acts as a non-slip. The parts are much easier to manage, even though this looks awkward ...
Marked and sawn ..
Parts fitted ...
The other side of the drawer, which used a rebate, came out like this (a note - both these joints were test boards) ...
Both boards/angles ...
Link for this: http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/TheApothecaryChestWeekend9.html
Regards from Perth
Derek
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