# Teach yourself how to make dove-tail joints
**URL:** https://metastudio.org/t/teach-yourself-how-to-make-dove-tail-joints/2169
**Category:** Projects
**Tags:** stem-games, challenge, experimental
**Created:** [September 21, 2019, 8:06am UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/teach-yourself-how-to-make-dove-tail-joints/2169 "2019-09-21T08:06:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@punkish](https://metastudio.org/u/punkish)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2019, 8:06am UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/teach-yourself-how-to-make-dove-tail-joints/2169/1 "2019-09-21T08:06:36Z")
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Finished_dovetail.jpg)
A finished dovetail joint.
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gersa18.jpg)
Dovetailed woodworking joints on a Romanian church.
[A **dovetail joint** or simply **dovetail** is a joinery technique most commonly used in woodworking joinery (carpentry) including furniture, cabinets.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovetail_joint)
## Project
Teach yourself how to make a dove-tail joint, and then use it to help make a [plastic vermiculture bin](https://stemgames.metastudio.org/t/worms-that-eat-plastics/2168)
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### Author:  [@jtd](https://metastudio.org/u/jtd)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/teach-yourself-how-to-make-dove-tail-joints/2169/2 "2019-09-21T14:15:52Z")
> [@punkish](#):
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> Dovetailed woodworking joints on a Romanian church.
The number of tapered cuts!.
Super craftsmanship.
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### Author:  [@Sjuday2527](https://metastudio.org/u/Sjuday2527)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/teach-yourself-how-to-make-dove-tail-joints/2169/3 "2019-09-21T16:11:22Z")
Amazing š @punkish ā¦is there any reason they are called dove tail joints ?
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### Author:  [@punkish](https://metastudio.org/u/punkish)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/teach-yourself-how-to-make-dove-tail-joints/2169/4 "2019-09-21T16:31:00Z")
see [dovetail | Etymology, origin and meaning of dovetail by etymonline](https://www.etymonline.com/word/dovetail)
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### Author:  [@vvcstemplay](https://metastudio.org/u/vvcstemplay)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/teach-yourself-how-to-make-dove-tail-joints/2169/5 "2019-09-21T16:46:31Z")
> [@Sjuday2527](#):
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> is there any reason they are called dove tail joints
Could it be because they resemble the fan shape of a doveās tail? There might be more complicated answers, but occasionally the simple one works reasonably well.
Be that as it may.
Hereās a question: how was the pair of dove tail joints created to join the two pieces of wood sketched in the picture (first time Iām trying to upload a picture, hope it works correctly)?
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### Author:  [@jtd](https://metastudio.org/u/jtd)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 5:20am UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/teach-yourself-how-to-make-dove-tail-joints/2169/6 "2019-09-22T05:20:05Z")
> [@vvcstemplay](#):
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> how was the pair of dove tail joints created to join the two pieces of wood sketched in the picture
The invisible side would hold the clues.
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### Author:  [@punkish](https://metastudio.org/u/punkish)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 6:04am UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/teach-yourself-how-to-make-dove-tail-joints/2169/7 "2019-09-22T06:04:12Z")
perhaps an impossible object, perhaps not. Here is the only possible solution I can think of
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### Author:  [@vvcstemplay](https://metastudio.org/u/vvcstemplay)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 7:08am UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/teach-yourself-how-to-make-dove-tail-joints/2169/8 "2019-09-22T07:08:31Z")
As Sherlock Holmes was quoted to say, when you have eliminated the impossibleā¦ Whatever remains must be the truth
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### Author:  [@VirenVaz](https://metastudio.org/u/VirenVaz)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 11:50am UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/teach-yourself-how-to-make-dove-tail-joints/2169/9 "2019-09-22T11:50:23Z")
Did someone say dovetail joints!