Daddo tool

Over here in Australia, i have often read in magazines, where a tool called a daddo is used with wood. It looks like a router blade, is this right. Is there another name for this tool.
Peter Australia

Raven wrote: | Over here in Australia, i have often read in magazines, where a | tool called a daddo is used with wood. It looks like a router | blade, is this right. Is there another name for this tool.
Peter...
If it's intended for use with a router, then it's commonly called a "straight router bit".
If it's intended for use with a table or radial arm saw, then it's commonly called a "dado blade" or "dado blade set" (depending on type).
-- Morris Dovey DeSoto Solar DeSoto, Iowa USA http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto /

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Perhaps you mean "dado" ?
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No. Saws use blades. Routers use bits.
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Perhaps if you gave some more information about what this tool *does*...

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Perhaps you mean the old fashioned hand router?
http://www.stanleytools.com/default.asp?CATEGORY=PLANES&TYPE=PRODUCT&PARTNUMBER -071&SDesc=Router+Plane
or
http://www.lie-nielsen.com/catalog.php?skuq Large http://www.lie-nielsen.com/catalog.php?sku '1 Small
It could (perhaps?) be used for dados as well. But I don't see how to guide it precisely.
Here's an old one (patent in 1884) on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/STANLEY-71-1-2-HAND-ROUTER-PLANE-PAT-March-4-1884_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQitemZ170144488796#ebayphotohosting