Box Dovetail joints are quite strong and attractive joints. The shape of the joint ensure that you cannot pull both pieces apart, these type of joints are good in tension. The name dovetail comes from fact that the tails looks somewhat similar to a bird’s tail. The dovetail slopes differ in softwood and hardwood. The slope is larger on softwood to give more grip.
Is ailt láidre agus tharraingteacha iad na Déadailt Bosca. Mar gheall ar an chrot atá orthu, ní feidir leat an dá phíosa a tharraingt as a chéile. Tá na cineál hailt seo maith i teannas mar go bhfuil nasc maith acu. Tugtar an t-ainm seo orthu mar go bhfuil sé cosúil le ruball éin. Tá difríocht san fhána in adhmad bog agus crua. Tá an fána níos mó san adhmad bog le greim níos fearr a thabhairt dó.