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Dovetail Joint

Definition of Dovetail Joint:
A dovetail joint is a high strength joint that consists of fingers and pins. Dovetail joints are considered to be a very strong joint since there is plenty of glue surface area. Dovetail joints are often used for drawer assembly.

Leigh Dovetail Jig

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Dovetail joinery made easy! Versatile dovetail jig provides infinite spacing of pins and tails to easily rout a wide variety of joints, including through, half-blind, sliding, angled, rabbetted and end-on-end.
Cut through dovetails up to 13/16" thick, and half-blind and sliding dovetails up to 1" thick.

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