Firewood dovetails
Posted Jul 26, 2018, 10:25 AM UTC
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Wow! I thought dovetails had to be perfectly symmetrical and straight to look good, but these are some of the best I have seen. Love how natural they look. Cool idea and great job.
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Really it just comes down to them being a tight fit that's functional.
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At first I thought this was another dovetail fail post. This is actually pretty nice. Would love to see the completed boxes.
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I really like the crude and natural look of this. Great job!
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That's mighty fine looking firewood you have there.
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Now you have to burn it for it to truly be firewood.
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I always love the intersection of natural/rustic/unfinished and skilled craftsmanship, and this is a great example.
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When I saw the thumbnail of this, I expected it to be on par with the First Dovetail posts. But it's actually really cool! Well done!
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This could create some beautiful, unique furniture, very cool.
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Salvador Dali-esque
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Wabi-Sabi as heck. I love this look. I am sure it took a lot of time and patience.
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Great. First pallets.. now firewood. Here comes the never ending firewood Pinterest pages /s
Good one. Have a internet boop.
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Is this the new "River Table"?
Time will tell ...
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neato! You've done that before....
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This looks cool! Reminds me of an episode of Roy Underhill where he makes a chest out of riven wood.
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You have a link or ep info on this? I'd love to watch that one
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I like it! Almost seems childlike.
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Looks great, usually my dovetail wood only becomes firewood after I cut them!
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You'll have a strong fire now..
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Neat. Looks straight out of a Dr. Seuss book.
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"honey, where's the firewood?"
"don't be mad but... i accidentally made a table out of it."
"again?!"
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I tried some doing some dovetails in pieces of firewood. These are split from baltic birch firewood logs using a froe and have not been sawn, planed or dimensioned. The pieces are twisted and rough.
I built a whole box with these, I might post an album after I get it out of glue and finish.
Very unique and very nice.
Please do.
would love to see that
I wood love to see it too!
This is cool. I'd definitely like to see an album.
You may have kicked off a new sub r/firewoodworking !
That's really effin' cool! Thanks for posting this and good on you for thinking outside the box. I'm curious what the inside of this joint looks like if you do post more pictures.
https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/comments/92boyl/firewood_dovetail_box_completed/
Here's the complete build album.