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hmm........2nd round of sawing square and it didn't go so well. All four of them were slightly off square. Not terribly OTL (out to lunch) but enough that there would be gaps between the tails and pins.tailsThe angle of tails appear to be consistent. I was expecting this to be different but it looks like muscle memory has the angle down.made a command decisionDecided to cheat a bit by using a square to layout the tails. I did the spacing by eye which after seeing what I had done needs some work.like the old daysSeveral years ago I started to knife the tail and pin layout lines. Before that I used pencil and then sawed on that layout line. Used the dozuki saw for the tails and pins. I find that with the finer TPI it saws easier in thin stock then my Blue Spruce dovetail saw.I'm squarePaul Sellers used a coping saw to remove the waste and fitted his tails/pins without any chiseling. I used a marking gauge for the baselines and the half pins. Off the saw the half pins were almost dead on…

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