Forum topic by wkossen | posted 06-09-2019 01:05 PM | 1174 views | 0 times favorited | 15 replies | ![]() |
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06-09-2019 01:05 PM |
Topic tags/keywords: 10 degree dado question Hi, I need to make a drawer with 10 defree sides. I need a dado on both sides straight so it compensates for the 10 degree sloping sides. Dado stacks arent available in my country (Netherlands). How best to do this? I thought about a sled with a 10degree bed for the table saw, and also about making a 10 degree sole for the router. Not sure if those are the best methods. So what would you do? Thanks! |
15 replies so far
#1 posted 06-09-2019 01:33 PM |
Make a 10 degree block and use a hand saw to make one drawer. Clean up with a router plane and chisel. |
#2 posted 06-09-2019 01:35 PM |
Since I have both a router and TS, I’d use the TS. Assuming the end of your drawer side is trimmed at 10 degrees, a sled that rides in the miter slot or a miter gauge would do the trick. Tilt the blade to 10 degrees, Attach a stop block to position the drawer face for the outer cut. Use a spacer against the stop (thickness of the drawer side minus the blade thickness) to position the drawer face for the inside cut. Hog out the center waste with multiple passes. |
#3 posted 06-09-2019 03:42 PM |
In this case, I think it’s easier and probably safer to bring the tool to the wood rather than the wood to the tool—therefore, router and 10-degree sole. -- Gary, Florida |
#4 posted 06-10-2019 03:42 PM |
I assume you want to cut a dado as shown on the left. Instead of a dado, can you do as shown on the right by replacing the dado with a cleat? |
#5 posted 06-10-2019 04:19 PM |
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#6 posted 06-10-2019 04:28 PM |
Perzactly….. You can watch Chris Gochnour of FWW do enough of it on this free video that it should illuminate your path. IIRC he did an 11*, but that is easy set up on your TS when you cut your billet. Conversely they can be set up for a TS, I think the thing is, is seeing it happen, then you can apply that to your work. FWIW I do all of these by hand. Learned them that way, and I just never saw the need to swap to power equipment. Because you are cutting them against a clamped down billet, it really isn’t fair to call it hand tool work. Kinda like hand tools on training wheels. Believe me in my learning curve, I made mistakes in everything. With these you almost have to try to mess up. -- Think safe, be safe |
#7 posted 06-10-2019 04:28 PM |
Ah yes, MrRon, picture worth 10K words. Here is an illustration of where my mind was: Basically you just peck out the dado with the blade tilted to 10 degrees |
#8 posted 06-10-2019 05:13 PM |
Thats exactly it. Left picture. |
#9 posted 06-10-2019 07:21 PM |
As said above, tilt your table saw to 10 degrees, and make passes until you get the width you want. Next best thing would be the tilt base on your router. |
#10 posted 06-10-2019 10:22 PM |
Cut a 10 degree wedge from a scrap board on the table saw, use double sided (carpet) tape to attach the wedge to the board you want the dado cut in and use a router to cut the dado through the wedge, preferably on a router table, remove the wedge. -- Nathan, TX -- Hire the lazy man. He may not do as much work but that's because he will find a better way. |
#11 posted 06-11-2019 12:57 AM |
Someone here in the US can start sending you “care packages” filled with stacked dado sets allowing you to become a black market distributor with a healthy mark up. Problem solved for you and many others in similar predicaments. -- “I never in my life thought I would have to say this, but the proper role of government is not to fund the distribution of crack pipes,” Lauren Boebert |
#12 posted 06-11-2019 10:24 AM |
I’d do it on a router table, running the workpiece against the fence. Attach a shim strip to the table, next to the fence, with the shim thickness chosen to tilt the workpiece 10 degrees. -- Dennis 'We are all faced with a series of great opportunities, brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.' Charles Swindoll |
#13 posted 06-11-2019 07:15 PM |
European saws don’t have an arbor long enough to accept a dado set. |
#14 posted 06-11-2019 08:04 PM |
Invention alert! How about a dado stack that threads right onto the arbor? No need for the lock nut. |
#15 posted 06-12-2019 07:22 PM |
Once the brake set, the dado set would un-screw from the arbor and go flying. |
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