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Its doable without power tools. Any decent lumber supplier will be able joint and dimension the stock for you (for a small fee). Then if you're doing it sans power tools swap the sliding dovetail for a dado for simplicity, but you can cut sliding dovetails by hand it will just take aaaaaages, and require a considerable level of both skill and anal retentive attention to detail.
there are portable versions that you can make and clamp to something:
https://youtu.be/7vBXvlP4bEs
https://youtu.be/zjqWvpdNbms