Make a Dovetail Box in 12 Minutes — WOOD magazine

Make a Dovetail Box in 12 Minutes — WOOD magazine

Through dovetail joints are as beautiful as they are strong, and work great for all kinds of casework, including drawers. In this video, WOOD magazine’s Bob Hunter shows how to make a dovetail box in just 12 minutes from start to finish using a template and a router table.

Products, supplies, and plans used (WOOD receives commissions for purchases made at some links):
Keller dovetail system: https://amzn.to/2uClsRD
Plans for Bob’s router table: https://www.woodstore.net/Router-Table-and-Organizer-p/gr-00729.htm

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50 Comments

  1. Pat Messinger on August 22, 2023 at 6:24 pm

    Is it me or what? The joints in the film clip appeared to be more like box fingers rather than dovetails?



  2. Britannya G H on August 22, 2023 at 6:25 pm

    How did you put the pice of wood on the back.? Can you show us how u put it all together



  3. JON Gergeceff on August 22, 2023 at 6:27 pm

    Super nice 👍.



  4. Robert Rivera on August 22, 2023 at 6:29 pm

    As an amateur with woodworker, i typically feel overpowered with the entire arrangement https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxrYREG3-7f1Aqk9ams3ZESRNzGnfdUtyQ . Be that as it may, this arrangements drove me through with much clarity and effortlessness woodplans. Works i now work like a genius. That is great!



  5. Jan Solo on August 22, 2023 at 6:29 pm

    Pretty good !!



  6. george tzintzis on August 22, 2023 at 6:30 pm

    can i make blind dovetails with this jig



  7. Teyron Jayne Evans on August 22, 2023 at 6:30 pm

    Thank you, making woodworking accessible to all. Even I want a router now 😀



  8. dog e on August 22, 2023 at 6:30 pm

    Template you Recomend to buy and also the router bit names



  9. Craig Monteforte on August 22, 2023 at 6:31 pm

    Very nice demonstration , As my Dad always told me , If you have the right Tools you can make Life Easier ! i’m a retired Woodworker myself who spent over 35 Years in Commercial AtchitetualWoodwork it’s also been my Passion and Hobby for over 40 years i personally do not Trust most brands of the QuickmGrip style of Clamps especially for Routing Purposes that have the Vibration i have not ever had traditional CClamp or PonynBrand F Clamps coevlose or get “bumped loose on me during Machining but i have had Quick Grips ?



  10. David Jonas on August 22, 2023 at 6:33 pm

    Excellent video, extremely helpful, thank you!



  11. david selig on August 22, 2023 at 6:33 pm

    Yeah if you even have the tools.



  12. Brosia211 on August 22, 2023 at 6:35 pm

    What kind of machine is this



  13. Reno Holland on August 22, 2023 at 6:35 pm

    Nicely done.



  14. Pieter Haarhoff on August 22, 2023 at 6:40 pm

    What bits are you using?



  15. A R on August 22, 2023 at 6:41 pm

    Not exactly making a box in 12 minutes though, are you?



  16. Barrie Jones on August 22, 2023 at 6:42 pm

    A perfectly produced tutorial, many thanks



  17. asd67lkj on August 22, 2023 at 6:42 pm

    Thanks. I use another brand jig which is very similar. I learned a few tips from this video….



  18. MJ Remy on August 22, 2023 at 6:44 pm

    What a great demo, beautiful! The marking of that center line is key. So well done and captured perfectly on video. Now to figure out a way to mount my router on a table. Thank you!!



  19. ONJ 88 on August 22, 2023 at 6:45 pm

    Very good tools



  20. Enchanted mountain on August 22, 2023 at 6:45 pm

    Thank you for sharing, why did you change the router bit? I need one of the jigs



  21. Rogelio Balbuena on August 22, 2023 at 6:47 pm

    No skill recquired,all machine,,,



  22. Zebulon 2.1 on August 22, 2023 at 6:47 pm

    Thank you for sharing this. I inherited these jigs and didn’t know how to use them.



  23. manbach on August 22, 2023 at 6:47 pm

    Very special!



  24. Stefan Carey on August 22, 2023 at 6:48 pm

    Great demo, thanks Stefan, Australia



  25. GrandMarnier on August 22, 2023 at 6:48 pm

    How are dovetails "hallmarks" of good craftsmanship when they’re machined in……



  26. Juan Colome on August 22, 2023 at 6:49 pm

    Amazing video



  27. R T on August 22, 2023 at 6:49 pm

    Hmmm. My father used to keep bees and made his own beehives. The jig is still there or should be and I always wondered how it worked.



  28. TheJmills39 on August 22, 2023 at 6:52 pm

    Cutting dovetails with a router instead of by hand just seems boring. I can understand if it’s a business/revenue matter. This is a great demonstration though, and you explain it very well.



  29. Larry Bloom on August 22, 2023 at 6:53 pm

    Good video, but I feel like you are promoting an overpriced jig. $250 for a piece of plastic and two router bits that don’t look at all high grade????



  30. César Salvestro on August 22, 2023 at 6:53 pm

    GOOD JOB !!! … THANK YOU !!!



  31. heron gomez on August 22, 2023 at 6:55 pm

    perfecto gracias



  32. Ernie Forrest on August 22, 2023 at 6:56 pm

    So if you were in the business of building kitchen cabinets, and producing say i complete kitchen per month all by yourself, would you still use this method of dovetailing the drawers?



  33. B L on August 22, 2023 at 6:57 pm

    Great video. I am new to making dovetail joints. I have and older craftsman jig to mount to my workbench. It appears to me that 2 boards at right angle to each other can be routed with handheld router. What is the advantage of using an expensive ( say a Keller) templates approach. I can see the benefit of using my router table. Would you show me some favor and recommend some less expensive jig templates. I think your approach is the way to go and could offer me more flexibility.Thank you Bruce



  34. Michael Dodds on August 22, 2023 at 6:58 pm

    Hellish expense for a full set though, most hobbyists couldn’t justify it



  35. Bernardino Alvarez on August 22, 2023 at 6:59 pm

    El vídeo me encantó, pero quisiera saber donde se puede adquirir la plantilla. Gracias



  36. Artivistic on August 22, 2023 at 6:59 pm

    The beast



  37. Huerto Orgánico 11 de Julio on August 22, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Great work, love it



  38. Rachel Cooper on August 22, 2023 at 7:02 pm

    Thank you so much for this!!! I dream of having a woodshop like yours!! Saving this to use to plan my setup!! I learned more in this video about routers and dovetails than I have in all the others combined. I hope I can find more of your videos!!



  39. Mark Steele on August 22, 2023 at 7:02 pm

    If he can do this in 12 Minutes, I’m sure that I could do it in about 2 1/2 hours…..



  40. DMAC Creations on August 22, 2023 at 7:06 pm

    Hello! I’m late to the party – just found this video recently. Is there a way to use this jig for box joints?



  41. T Van on August 22, 2023 at 7:06 pm

    Thanks so much!



  42. silentscribes on August 22, 2023 at 7:07 pm

    Great job and great video. Thank you



  43. Guy Bartlett on August 22, 2023 at 7:07 pm

    Subbed



  44. Tim H. on August 22, 2023 at 7:09 pm

    Yeah I knew 12 minutes was total BS! Preparing your stock most definitely counts in the overall time of making any project!



  45. Ibrahim Muhammed on August 22, 2023 at 7:09 pm

    What are the dimensions of both bits please?



  46. Nikolay Karavan on August 22, 2023 at 7:11 pm

    👋👍



  47. JimmyTGoose on August 22, 2023 at 7:17 pm

    Nice clip . Am i alone in thinking he looks like Mike Judge ….?
    Huh huh huh huh….😃



  48. Pete Soebekti on August 22, 2023 at 7:17 pm

    you do not need to use two wrenches on the router, the router has a spindle lock button 😀



  49. Ridistrict on August 22, 2023 at 7:23 pm

    2:49: "babe come over"



  50. DaveDott on August 22, 2023 at 7:23 pm

    This man is like the Bob Ross of woodworking.