I’m in the process of making a reverse engineered dove-tail joint. A dove-tail joint is a perpendicular joint between two pieces of wood – one piece has pins and the other has the tails. Based on the grain of the wood, one has to first cut the pins on one piece and then cut the tails on the other piece using the pins as a template. Like with the reverse engineered book end, I want to see if I can make the cutting of the tails more accurate and fast by scanning the pins on a flat-bed scanner (the image above) and cutting out tails that fit them exactly.
Unfortunately the CNC router bit was not long enough for the thickness of the wood, so I’ll have to make another dove-tail with thinner lumber.
