Dovetail myth regarding pin dimensions.

Gentlemen. Thank you for your indulgence on this issue!!
My take away on this is that for precision, I will need to use the pin method!
I am doing this in my home shop using an RJ round column mill, and a Chinese mini lathe.
So while the pin method is useful for micro scale work, my tooling is better suited to furlong scale work!!
I spent a lot of my life in the micron and sub micron world where we found we needed a professional scraper to be flown in to do some of the work. Mind you I was only his escort and get a ---- for me. But gained an apparition for the fine craft end of it all. Measurements on the scale of a 1/2 wave length of light? Really!!! I understand HOW that works now, and the results of the work, but WOW!!!
So thank you for your indulgence.

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I have a follow on if I will be allowed. I kind of understand using the pins to get untold of accuracy to fit the dovetails together. Then I was playing with my lathe bed and all of a sudden it dawned on me "THE GIBBS!!!" These allow for adjustments due to wear, misfiting and all sort of other evils. As these are adjustable so the accuracy isn't that big of a deal, is it?
Most all of the "professional" dovetails I have seen have Gibbs in them.
Once again, just trying to make sure I really understand what is happening.
And Thanks again.
 
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