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Demonstrating dovetails

Part of my demonstrating was cutting dovetails and it’s one I have done many times in the USA shows where I perfected the demo, so people are used to it there. Here in the north of the UK that wasn’t the case so they were interested straight away. Here is how it went at the North of England Woodworking Show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuybp4y5uTA

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