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ureslearn the secrets toRouting Dovetailsit easy. And with just a few simple trps,lenplate pasition detetmin*It's hard to think of a woodworkingjoint you can cui fasier than a halfblinddoletail - boft parls of thejoint are cut at ihe sme time with ahand held router ald a haf-biinddovetail jig (photo above).The real challenge is sening up adovetail jig so that routfi8 dle jointis fast, easy, and accunie. Anddoing that depends on fte style ofdovetaii jig you have (or might beLhinldng aboui getiing).A tAtt 0I nvo JlGt. Page through anumber of woodworking catalogsand it miSht seem like ihere areover a dozen different dovetail jigs.But ifyou look closely, you'il noticethat mosi of d1em resemble one ofthe half-blnd dovetail jigs at left.What's the difference? On ihejig at the far left, the depih of thesocket that accepts ihe tail isNo. 154