Dadoo question

[Morris Dovey]

You're welcome. It's difficult not to consider you a contributor since one of the web pages hit most frequently was that with your photos, although I think your inventiveness and generosity were seriously under-appreciated. At this point I'm of the opinion that those who want to avail themselves of your generosity can ask "please" and say "thank you" to you directly.

The only thing I found offensive was the attitude that I didn't have the right to charge for products that the complainers weren't capable of producing (or even imagining) without my showing the way. 'Nuff said - end rant.

Pax.

[Max]

I've done it both ways and I find it easier, when necessary, to place a thin strip of material (masking tape, UHMW plastic strip, etc.) along side my routing guide than it is to mount a dado blade and remove and remount it to keep adding (or subtracting) shims to get the correct width. But then I have a large assortment of router bits and I seldom have to resort to adding anything to the guide.

There's a good plan from "Shop Notes" for a dado jig that would work even better than my method.

Max

[todd]

This is exactly how I made my kitchen cabinets. I rabbeted the front edge of the plywood to fit a mating dado in my face frames. I used a router bit set from Marc Sommerfeld.

todd

[Scott Lurndal]

Bore out the shim? It's the thickness that matters, not the fit to the arbor.

scott

[Ted]

This will be my first big project. I will be making a closet system for myself. I was thinking of using a rabit on the back for a back panel to fit in. I was thinking of using dados for the permanent shelf's.

Ted