Best way to make a dado

It is. What I do is to have a separate base that is permanently attached to the table. All I have to do is switch the motor. Many people have two (or more) routers so they don't have to switch.

Unless you are clamping so hard as to compress the wood, this is not a concern.

On 3/2/2006 10:38 AM stryped mumbled something about the following:

Since you don't want this archived, I'll archive your question for you.

On 3/2/2006 11:04 AM stryped mumbled something about the following:

And since you don't want this one archived, I'll archive it for you as well.

On 3/2/2006 1:42 PM stryped mumbled something about the following:

Another one I'll archive for you. Can't let people know how many questions you ask without doing any research.

Yaaay, Odinn! Tom (Fancy-lad #8)

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router. That note was on the jig as a reminder when it was designed to be used with a router guide bushing. With a top bearing bit the router can be clocked or turned during the cut.

LOL! Are you SURE you can't use real horses? What if they're nice and calm? Then the horses could do the moving and the router could sit still! Lots easier than all that pushing/pulling!

Wayyy back when, I helped run a farm while the guy was in hospital. He used Erie Mules, huge, gigantic, muscled animals that were as gentle as a momma's breath. They could even successfully back a 4-wheeled manure spreader down the length of the barn by just hollering "Backa, backa, backa" at them til they got where you wanted them. Then you continued shovelling.

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Brought back memories ... when I got of the service, and besides music which was kinda lean back then, I went back to shoeing horses, mainly because at that point I didn't give a damn about doing anything else but chasing women and raising hell, and it gave me ample opportunity to be worthless and do both.

Two of the stables I routinely worked at still used mules to pull the manure wagons through the barns. I still have one of the mule collars, and until a few years ago, my Dad still had one of the four wheel manure wagons laying around his farm I scored when the stables closed, maybe still does.

Construct a slotted jig for your router such that the router base rides against sides on the jig. Make the jig such that it can be securely clamped on the bookcase side. Once you have the jig built, cutting perfect dados will be a snap. Using a dado blade in a table saw is the easiest. Either method can produce perfect dadoes.

BE the bit...

Just do it...

Or five or six. ;-)

Glen