Newbie question: How to make finger joint cut

Scott Kuhn · 2004-07-12T19:40:41+00:00

I have almost no experience with woodworking and am wondering whichtool would be best to make the following cut. (I can make it fairlywell w/ hand tools, but curious what the best approach would be withpower tool).I have a piece of poplar 1/2" thick, 9" long, 4.5" wide. I want to cuta rectangle out of the corner of the board to make a finger. I'd liketo remove 1/2" along the 9" edge and 2.25" along the 4.5" edge. I needto be able to make it close to perfectly square, and to do thisrepeatably on multiple boards.Visually, here is what I want to do (not to scale):Before:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxAfter:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxI'm guessing I could do this on a table saw, for this case, since Ican raise the blade 1/2" above the table and use a dado head blade.However, what about the more general case, if the smaller dimension ofthe rectangle that I want to remove was larger than the max height ofa tablesaw blade?Thanks for any suggestions.-Scott

Jul 12, 2004 40 Replies

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Andy Jeffries 22 years ago

LOL!!!

Yeah, it's odd - I've just ordered the one I mentioned from Axminster and that's considered a bench saw (although it looks a world away from what I'm used to).

I'll take a photo of my old one before I bin it/give it away...

Yep, has a depth adjustment. The best bit is that it has a mitre slide :-) And a maximum cutting depth of 80odd millimiters as opposed to a fixed cutting depth of 43mm...

Getting excited.....

Cheers,

Andy

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