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Originally Posted by Bruce of MN
Tom Wesenburg told me one time that the dovetail profile was slightly different from the usual router bit profiles but he found one that was right and used it to make a copy of the original floorboard.
It is odd that the dowel doesn't go deeper into the board edge as a reinforcement.
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This is where "sectioning" an original board might come in handy - and some investigations with the "high-end" router bit producers.
Popular among the colonial furniture reproducers are "dovetail joints" at the corners of casework. Not satisfied with the manual skill and time necessary to produce these with a back-saw and chisel, there became a demand for "more colonial" dovetail cutters produced at angles not then available - which the high end producers were eventually happy to provide.
Most of these high end sources are still around. I can't recall a source name offhand, but I get their catalogs and probably will continue to long beyond my passing.
Joe K