Sliding dovetail

A sliding dovetail is a woodworking joint that allows you to slot together two separate pieces of wood without the need for screws, glue, or any other fasteners. It's useful for lending simple elegance to drawers, shelves, and furniture....

Here's a safe and simple way to accurately make the sliding dovetails on the drawer fronts of the 10 drawer tower in Woodsmith 271.

Tim Rousseau shows how to modify a side rabbet plane to fine tune a tapered sliding dovetail.

Aaron Bebeau on Instagram: "Practicing some sliding dovetails."

Use a router table for fast and accurate dovetail drawer joinery.

The sliding dovetail joint is typically used for shelf support or drawer construction. They’re easy to make using a straight bit and a dovetail bit. For a 1/2-in.-wide sliding dovetail, first remove some waste from the socket with a 1/4-in. straight bit. Set up the fence so that the 1/4-in. bit is centered exactly in the dado, and use a backer board if it is a through cut.

Sliding dovetails are a unique joint that allows you to make wooden drawer slides and other unique applications where wood is allowed to move in one direction while being locked...

Of the many styles of dovetail joints, none are as useful or strong as the sliding dovetail.