In this informative woodworking tutorial, learn how to create dovetail splines using a simple splining jig and a trim router.

Since I don’t have the time or patience to measure, mark, and cut dovetails by hand, I spent an afternoon researching dovetail router jigs to work with my router.

Dovetail joints are the most beautiful woodworking joints, but they’re also notoriously difficult to get right. So we picked the brain of a pro woodworker.