Would You Do This With A Dado Blade?

When I made new drawers off my kitchen, the bottoms of the old ones were the right thickness to use as plates. I cut a bunch and have a stack of blanks and zero clearances for different blades and dado widths.

Really? Mine will allow a narrow dado like the one in the video.

Even if the flange is up as high as that one appears to be?

I think most of us are assuming that the flange is higher than where the bottom of a "standard" plate would be.

snipped-for-privacy@notreal.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I'm with krw on this. Both practices are taking unnecessary risks, considering how little effort it takes to make an insert for the dado set, and to position your hands and body properly for safety.

John

It's hard to say (no measurements available) but I think so. It's pretty (uselessly) wide.

Did you see evidence of this? If so, I'd add the fourth strike.