Now it was time for the moment of truth, it was time to cut the dovetails. I will not lie, I was a little nervous. I started with the dovetails on the door frame first. Then it was on to the cabinet.
I set a marking gague to just under the thickness of the pin board. Then scribe a line to that thickness on the tail board
I then laid out the tails. I set my half pins to 1/4", which made my full pins a 1/2" I wanted 4 tails on both the door and cabinet frames. I didn't have dividers to mark the tail locations. Instead I just eyeballed the location of the tails. I did make sure that I clearly marked the waste.
I used a dovetail marker that had a 1:8 slope and marked out the tails. I made the cuts right on line all the way down to the scribe line. I chopped out the waste in between the tails with a chisel.
This was my first tail and I made a little bit of a mistake when laying them out. You can see that the tail on the far right is much smaller than the rest.