Tim,

this might have been my favorite part of the week

all of the half dovetails that were not pegged, just wedged began to withdraw right away. Kind of sad, really.

But Tom's full DT was different. It seems the peg and dovetail both loaded up pretty quickly and held steady with no noise or slippage until they had put about 14k on it and then the peg popped. And then it started slowly......slowly........slowly.........withdrawing while still under about 14k of tension. It was awesome.

with a 1 1/4" peg of white oak -- who knows? it might have given the machine a run for it.