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Add a custom design to an already beautiful joint by
adjusting the layout.
Even if you love to eat sandwiches, you probably dont et the same ham sandwich
everyday. sometimes you like baloney. And soi withthe davetall int One
= ‘option that many woodworkers don take advantage of when cutting through dovetail
Joins i adjusting the layout, or the repeating pattern, ofthe tals and pins, Sometimes
‘hiss because they use a dover, and its ut spacings fixed, but sometimes tis
{ust because they dnt think ofthe opportunity to vary not enly the spacing and
‘width of the tis an pins, but the depth as well High quality dovetal ge euch a the
Leigh allow almost infinite layout options, Of course if you cu them by hand, you
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layout options. They will get you started when it comes to designing your own custom,
‘dovetail ayout Perhaps it could even become your “signature detail so that anyone
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the pins are so
large.
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powerfully a an
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he pins take ona
Finesse because
they are smaller.
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