Why do people insist on using Dado sets to make slots in wood. I’ve always found a router to be far superior. What am I missing. The dado sets i’ve used are more trouble than they are worth.
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lunchbox,
It depends of course on what you need to cut. If you're plowing a dado across the middle of a board, sure, the router is fine. But if you need to rabbet the end of a 2" wide stile, the dado on the saw will do it before you even figure out how to set up the router. Or another example - to dado across a large sheet, once the table saw's fence is set you can repeat that cut quickly and exactly. With the router you need to re-clamp the fence to every piece of wood. If you want to repeat it 20 times, which way do you prefer?
There are lots of other examples..
DR
Depends on the fit, finish and speed. The new dado sets are quite nice and leave a nice flat bottom. There's pros and cons to both ways depending onthe application. The idea of being to shim it to fit odd sizes alone is worth the dado.
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