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Cadillac
I was in the same place as yourself so I used some mild steel to make a straight edge for the dovetail. It was well worth the effort as rigidity shot way up.
If your machine isn't out very far, you can use the same gibb though you may have to put some shim behind it. I found that many factory gibbs are poorly fit. Getting the gibbs to fit right seems much harder than scraping dovetails to me.
The only down side is that steel is a pita to scrape.
Each step, each surface compleated can make a notable difference.
I was in the same place as yourself so I used some mild steel to make a straight edge for the dovetail. It was well worth the effort as rigidity shot way up.
If your machine isn't out very far, you can use the same gibb though you may have to put some shim behind it. I found that many factory gibbs are poorly fit. Getting the gibbs to fit right seems much harder than scraping dovetails to me.
The only down side is that steel is a pita to scrape.
Each step, each surface compleated can make a notable difference.