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    Here's some photos of the parts. It's basically the joinery hidden inside a miter, with nothing exposed. I'm not really sure, to be honest, that a 3-axis machine can do the undercut that would be necessary for blind dovetails because of the half-round that goes past the straight line cut.
    If you could figure out a way to do it, though, I'd buy the software just to say I had the capability, even if I never used it.

    Luke
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trotline View Post
    Here's some photos of the parts. It's basically the joinery hidden inside a miter, with nothing exposed. I'm not really sure, to be honest, that a 3-axis machine can do the undercut that would be necessary for blind dovetails because of the half-round that goes past the straight line cut.
    If you could figure out a way to do it, though, I'd buy the software just to say I had the capability, even if I never used it.

    Luke
    The half-blind dovetail joint is the easier of the dovetail joints. Most all manual dovetail jigs do half-blind dovetails. It would be tough to do a full blind dovetail without some whittling afterwards.

    I did start some work for through dovetails on the flat a while back, but have been too busy to perfect the technique. I think it would be cool to have an app for woodworking joints.

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