Practising double-splayed dovetails, used in plane-making.

[Philip Davies]

Just to show an update on the practice piece which I have now rasped - quite a lot of rasping!

To correct distortion caused by peening, which tends to pull the sides in, I had to put it in the gas forge, using spacer bars and a stop in the hardy hole, with some judicious tapping with a heavy copper mallet. It is now tolerably square.



The end shows the distortion. That looks like American walnut for the infill.
Regrettably, some of the original peening marks from the ball-pein mi****s are still visible.

Spell checker will not accept mis-hits!
The second picture appears to show the sides flaring outwards, but they do not.