Quick Dovetail Tip! Hide Grooves on Through Dovetails.

Here's a method I'm using on some small boxes I'm making.
Stopped grooves are a slow way to work by hand. Therefore half laps and mitres are often used to close a groove that carries through.
The least favourable method is to glue in a slip of timber.
Here, I simply reduce the thickness of the dovetails by the depth of the groove.

[@jobophoto]

An excellent tip, that I’ve seen nowhere else. Thanks.

[@faceedgewoodworking]

No problems! I'm sure it's been done before. Perhaps I should quickly coin a catchy name for it for UA-cam immortality. Through lap dovetails?!

[@jobophoto]

👍Good name. Prefix it with ‘OMG! A secret they don’t want you to know!’ and you have algorithm catnip. 😀

[@faceedgewoodworking]

@@jobophoto 😂😂😂

[@red58impala]

Nice solution. Thanks for the tip!

[@faceedgewoodworking]

No trouble, thanks for watching!

[@TWC6724]

Excellent method. Going to try this

[@faceedgewoodworking]

No problem. Hope it serves you well.

[@TheHibener]

brilliant idea, thank you for sharing 😊

[@faceedgewoodworking]

No problem!

[@dalespringerwilson4233]

Why all that added work ? Wouldn't it be easier to cut the groove with a router bit and just stopped short the dovetail ? That just looked painfully easy to mess up....

[@eddienew2044]

Do you adjust the depth of your pins to account for the rebate?

[@faceedgewoodworking]

Absolutely. On this occasion I don't set the pins until grooves and prep of the tail board is done. Avoids egg on the face 👍

[@Caleb-fe2dl]

@@faceedgewoodworking omg makes so much sense. thanks

[@faceedgewoodworking]

@@Caleb-fe2dl nice 👌

[@jimcarter4929]

Seen done with just the groove tail, this would show better.

[@faceedgewoodworking]

Thanks Jim.