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One of the most difficult tasks in hand cutting dovetails is accurately transferring the tails and precisely sawing the pins. Rob's improved method of transferring tails to the pin board by offsetting the tailboard by the thickness of the saw kerf takes all the guess work out of where to saw.
Offsetting by the exact thickness can be challenging, but the Shawn Shim helps improve your offset accuracy. The brainchild of one of our Purple Heart Project alumni, we named the shim in honor of him.
Precisely milled to work with our regular dovetail saw, which requires a kerf thickness of .024 inches. The regular Shawn Shim has four different offsets to allow you to tighten or loosen the fit of the dovetails as needed.
I haven’t yet used the shim, but it is well made and comes in a well thought out and safe box for transportation.
I know we can watch the YT videos, but some instructions with photos to explain might be useful as well.
The Shawn Shim sites proudly with many other tools from Robs shop. Never had one complaint with anything. Overall, they helped my wood working journey and helped make me as a woodworker, that much better!
Brilliant idea. Much easier to mark the offset for a good dovetail fit.
Everything is very high quality and I love it all.
Like everything else I’ve purchased from Rob’s shop, this Shawn shim is top quality and makes dovetailing so much easier. Such a smart solution. Well done!
