Miter Clamp Assisted Marking of Pin Board

When making dovetailed joints, how do you align the tail to the pin board (or vice versa) for marking?

Traditional Method:

• Cut out and clean up tail board
• Place pin board in vice aligning the end of the board with a board placed on bench
• Align tail board on (future) pin board
• Mark

Miter Clamp Method:

Why not use a miter clamp?

• Alignment is quicker
• Alignment is a perfect 90°
• It is easier to check for any gap at the base of the dovetails by holding the piece up to a light
• If the marks are poorly made the first time, marking again is not a problem

If the marks are faint, it is much easier to align the two boards to remark. It is especially easy to reclamp and remark with a lipped draw