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In which 1snugthejoiner writes about woodworking, publishing, house renovations, cats and Shakespeare (dont worry – that last one is Yes, you can see a shim here if you look really closely…but no one other than you will likely notice (unless, of course, you point it I’m scheduled to teach myriad clas*es next year both at Lost Art Press Lie-Nielsen Toolworks – that one will be posted soon). Almost all of them involve dovetails. Plus, I’ve received a couple of questions in the last week or two concerning how to fix “bad” dovetails. And Christopher Schwarz is now in the glue-up stage of a multi-case dovetailed project, and I’ve parts for four dovetailed drawers on my bench at this very moment (which I plan to cut later today and tomorrow…to clear off my bench before this weekend’s clas*!) Which is to say I (just about always) have dovetails on the brain. So, below is my bullet-point list of talking points for dovetails fixes 1. Try to clamp it out. Blocks on the tails, sq*irt a runny glue in there (white glue, Old Brown Glue, West System epoxy) then clamp the below carcase surface. 3. Controlled spelching (that is, try to break out the fibers when planing…in the correct direction). 4. White glue & sandpaper. 5. For big gaps, shims (in same species and grain direction). Glue them in, them flush when the glue dries.) 6. Durham’s Water Putty, then paint. 7. Live with it; the build will (likely) stay together. 3. Durham’s Water Putty, then paint. 4. Live with it; the build will (likely) stay together. (OTHER) ERRANT SAWING FIXES 1. Cross the baseline? Glue in a flat or round toothpick. Flush. Color 2. Bite into a pin or tail while coping? See above. 3. Live with it; the build will (likely) stay together. AS*EMBLY ‘ERROR’ FIX 1. Crushed tail corner? Glue in a flat or round toothpick. Flush. I always avoid grinding far longer than I should (unless I hit a nail or something else catastrophic to a cutting edge). But with a year’s