Talk:Dovetail joint
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I felt it necessary to remove the following from the Dovetail joint entry: "cutting dovetails by hand is time consuming." In fact, cutting the dovetails for a single drawer is much faster than setting up the router. This is especially true for furniture where drawers of various sizes are used, requiring multiple resets of the router. I agree, however, that in long production runs machinery is faster (as is true for any cut in a manufacturing setting). For an instructional video, see "Dovetail a Drawer" by Frank Klausz.
This is correct. I did a small correction on the bit about the glued dovetail joint: it is not necessarily "permanent", technically speaking, when glued. One advantage of the joint is that it can be disassembled later, if using hide glue, wooden wedges, etc. Because a dovetail joint is usually, but not always, used in wood, I also specified with "wooden". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Frank Zamjatin (talk • contribs) 10:09, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Dovetail
Dovetail means to fit pieces together like in a puzzle!
64.136.216.79 00:05, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
What about the meaning of "Dovetail" in this sentence quoted from the Washinton Post: Sunday, March 9, 2008. "Two key issues that dovetailed to the Popular Party's advantage in the campaign were immigration and the economy. Spain has enjoyed 14 of rapid economic growth, which coincided with a large......." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.59.91.28 (talk) 23:21, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
- I think you will find that this 'definition' of dovetail just borrows from the idea of how dovetails interlock. I don't think that there is any need to add these specifically, because they would fall into the category of dictionary entries. You could not write an article on this use of the word. SilentC (talk) 23:28, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Not only woodworking
This article should be expanded to another page added to explain other examples of dovetails outside of "woodworking joinery". For instance, "dovetails" also describe types of radial retention means for blades and other structures in gas turbine engines. Also, you can use a dovetail on plastic articles not just wood ones, and so this article currently is a bit misleading, or at least incomplete. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.225.141.201 (talk) 23:03, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
- Thats what the disambiguation page that is linked at the top is for. ViridaeTalk 23:39, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
- No need to use the disambiguation page, because it's the exact same thing, except with a different material. The dovetail joint is not specific to woodworking, and the article should be changed accordingly. It may be most common in woodworking, but it is also used in many other areas, for example for linear guides of lathes and such, or to attach turbine blades to a shaft. --Tetris L (talk) 21:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
