Hello and welcome to the first project in my Free Online Woodworking School. It's fantastic to have you here! In this short video, I will explain the structure of the course. These are also summarised in the points below.

Hello and welcome to the first project in my Free Online Woodworking School. It's fantastic to have you here! In this short video, I will explain the structure of the course. These are also summarised in the points below.

This list compiles all of the tools that you will need to complete the dovetail box project! All buttons will take you to my page on Kit where you can read more of my thoughts on the tool and purchase it if you want to.

In this lesson, I will show you how to cut the tails on a dovetail joint detailing everything from how to wield the saw, all the way through to chiselling the baselines.

In this video, I show you my process of finishing the box. While you can follow the principles I share in this video, please keep in mind that this step is entirely up to you. Choose what ever finish you think would compliment your box the best.

In this lesson, I will show you how to transfer the tails to the pins for maximum accuracy. I also share some extra tips and tricks to help you align the boards perfectly in the first place.

You did it! You completed the dovetail box project. Congratulations! Or at the very least, you finished binge watching the entire series in one sitting. Either of which are perfectly fine. Just make sure you go out and try it yourself!

In this lesson, I will show you how to accurately cut and fit the pins for the dovetails. You had some leeway when it came to cutting the tails as the main focus was getting the endgrain square. With this part, you have to focus on both matching the pitch of the dovetail and cutting perfectly plumb too.

Don't worry, it's a very common thing even at my level to need to adjust the fit of your dovetails from time to time. Sometimes your sawing isn't quite up to scratch and a little bit of leftover material is preventing your joint from fully assembling. In this video, I will show you how to fix this.

Welcome to the most stressful part of any project, assembly. There's no way to avoid the increased heart rate that this stage brings. The only thing you can do is simply make it easier on yourself. In this video I show you how to prepare for a glue up and how to quickly diagnose and fix problems along the way.