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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.
Tried it for the 1st time for my first hand cut dovetails. It worked really well. I was impressed with the packaging and the case to keep it protected. You can't go wrong investing in Rob Cosman tools! Now I just need to practice more before I show off my work.
Hefty, solid build. Essential to those wanting to hand cut dovetails using Rob's offset method. It has made replicating hand-cut dovetails very efficient. Couldn't be happier with the purchase.
Ordered from the UK and item arrived in good time and well packaged. Really useful tool, a time saver as you can pretty much fit the joint straight off the saw with little clean up required. I had originally made my own from a small piece of wood but decided to treat myself!
Solutions that are simple are the best and this is one of them. Used in conjunction with a couple of other tools it makes cutting dovetails soooo much easier, accurate and more efficient.
A joy to use and really well designed and manufactured.
Solid and well made. Saves time with easy reproduction of offset.
