10 degree dado without dado stack

Make a 10 degree block and use a hand saw to make one drawer.

Clean up with a router plane and chisel.

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.

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

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?

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?

- MrRon

If MrRon and I understand you correctly then maybe you could make all the cuts on the table saw without any sleds, or jigs.

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Make a 10 degree block and use a hand saw to make one drawer.

Clean up with a router plane and chisel.

- waho6o9

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.

Right here.

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.

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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

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?

- MrRon

Thats exactly it. Left picture.

As said above, tilt your table saw to 10 degrees, and make passes until you get the width you want.
Your only problem with this is it won’t leave the bottom of the dado flat (90deg). You will have to cut a 10 degree bevel on the edge of your board that will be going into the dado.
You still will have the small cuts from your teeth still being 90 deg.
(A dado blade would eliminate the kerf marks, but I understand dado is not an option)

Next best thing would be the tilt base on your router.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

- bigblockyeti

European saws don’t have an arbor long enough to accept a dado set.

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.

- bigblockyeti

European saws don t have an arbor long enough to accept a dado set.

- MrRon

Invention alert!
How about a dado stack that threads right onto the arbor? No need for the lock nut.

Invention alert!
How about a dado stack that threads right onto the arbor? No need for the lock nut.

- LeeRoyMan

Once the brake set, the dado set would un-screw from the arbor and go flying.