I do agree with dale in that I like a dado blade better. My dado blade makes a pretty smooth dado with its chippers.
earlier, Lenny McHugh, wrote: >Max, I can not agree with Dale. >Most of my dado cuts are made with a stacked dado blade in my table saw. >However I do make some with my router table. It is easy to set up the >router table fence as opposed to clamping a guide to the stock. >Lenny >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Dale Leavens" <<mailto:dleavens%40puc.net>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <<mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 9:52 AM >Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] A router for Christmas. > >Hi Max, > >You will find a router to be a very useful and quite versatile woodworking >tool. There are many who believe it to be the superior way to cut dados, >certainly they can do a very good job, particularly cutting blind dados and >sliding dovetails. I am not sure I always agree, I really like a dado blade >in my table saw for a lot of that work too, the table is larger and the rip >fence makes set-up very quick but a router forms a perfectly flat bottomed >groove although there are those who claim the double groove at each edge of >a properly dado blade cut provides some space for the glue. > >If ever I have a problem with cutting dados with a router it is only in >keeping it tracking absolutely straight. There are many ways of >accomplishing that, the most important is moving in the direction of the >cutter. When cutting a dado one side of the cutter is moving against the >direction of the cut while the other edge is moving in the other direction. >The point is that you are pushing the cutter against the direction of the >cut so it tends not to pull the router along and therefor out of control. > >I prefer to use guide bushings inserted into the router base just because it >is easier to get the cut positioned. The collar is like a short tube >projecting below the baseplate through which your bit protrudes. If you are >cutting a three quarter dado you fit a collar a little better than three >quarters inside diameter the outside diameter will probably be 14 16ths so >you can clamp a straight piece of quarter inch or half inch plywood within a >sixteenth of an inch from the true location of the dado and set the router >on that guide and follow the edge with the collar. > >The other way to do it is to include the width of the router base divided by >two and minus half the diameter of the bit and clamp your straight edge >there. I have done this many times too but getting the location exact can be >a little frustrating. For example, if the dado is to be 3 quarters of an >inch and the router base is 7 inches in diameter then you will offset the >straight edge guide half the diameter of the base = 3.5 inches minus half >the diameter of the router bit which is 3 8ths so you will place the >straight edge three and one eighth inches from the desired edge of the dado. >If you want a stopped dado say three quarters from the edge of your board >that all gets a lot harder but much easier using a collar. > >I have made up templates for cutting the stringers for stairs and cut them >with a router. >This is the only way to go in my view. > >If you will be doing any amount of wood working you will also soon want a >router table. > >I now have three routers, a monster plunge router from Australia, a >'D'-handled one from sears and a nice little porter-Cab;e. They all have >their strengths and weaknesses. Just now the sears is mounted in a router >table and I had to remove a handle to get it there, it isn't my favorite. I >really like the little Porter-Cable it seems to take all my collars and such >but requires two wrenches to remove the bits and the switch is a toggle >switch, not ideal. > >The big Triton is a variable speed with two position plunge but, as it >stands I don't see how to instal collars, it is big and heavy and the >switch, though very safe is difficult to manipulate. It is behind a sliding >door, you slide the door then press the rocker switch with your thumb. when >you press it off the door springs over it so you cannot accidentally turn it >on but believe me, deliberately turning it on is something of a production. >It does come with a very nice combination circle guide and a fence out to >about 7 inches which is easily attached and removed and wonderful for >cutting dados out to that distance. It is a pretty expensive router and very >powerful. > >I would like a really small one for trimming and such and maybe a small >plunge router but I can't imagine Janet allowing me five or six of them. I >have destroyed a cheap Black & Decker router and a rather valuable Sears >electronic variable speed router over the past 25 years or so. > >Yesterday I began cutting plywood in preparation for building a router table >of more decent size. I began recording bits of the process however the >recorder I have isn't doing a wonderful job, I have another better one and >will get some batteries for it today and maybe a cheap separate mike. I sent >the last mike I had to my daughter for her Skype. As I began cutting up the >plywood I discovered it to be warped, maybe because it has been standing in >my shed too long, I will probably use a router to cut the dados in that >because it will sit flatter on the panels than I will get with my table saw, >the saw though will permit much more rapid set-up. > >Do have fun with your new router and if I can be of any help just let me >know. > >Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada ><mailto:DLeavens%40puc.net>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Skype DaleLeavens >Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Max Robinson" <<mailto:max%40maxsmusicplace.com>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Blind Handyman" ><<mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 12:26 AM >Subject: [BlindHandyMan] A router for Christmas. > > > Hi all. Sue gave me a Ridgid router for Christmas. 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