Another New User Introduction

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

For doing dovetails see:

Sharing Carbide Create Dovetail Files

Actually, it’s been a long time since geometry in high school. Instead, it’s more straight-forward to just draw this up — we start with the endmill itself since it and the stock dimensions as discussed above are the fundamental constraints. [image] Since the dovetail bit we have selected can only cut to a depth of 1/2", we have to leave 1/4" uncut for the blind dovetails, and we have to determine if we will draw up the pins or tails first. Folks do it both ways, and there are numerous argume…

There are a couple of options on finger joints — traditional (cut like the dovetails using a fixture which holds one board a 90 degrees to the other):

5-row storage box for MtG

or relieving the fingers in some fashion:

Design into 3D: Boxes: Magazine storage

Finally had occasion to calibrate the machine (the second cut was intentionally done with a decalibrated machine) and it fits together quite easily — probably one could use a few fewer tabs in the .c2d file. A further improvement might be to try cutting the areas for the finger joints only 1/2–2/3rds the thickness of the board deep, and shortening the fingerjoints by the inverse of that amount — that would hide the joinery, and slightly increase the gluing area.