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   forestgirl | Mar 09, 2006 09:08am | #1

   Some rip blades, such as the Freud LM72, have a flat tooth design that should work for finger joints.  There's a note on this page where the author mentions using a Ridge Carbide combination blade that provides flat-bottom cuts, so he doesn't have to swap out to a rip blade for box joints (see the 4th paragraph).

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 
   

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   siskiyou | Mar 09, 2006 10:05am | #2

   Thank you very much , I'll look for one of these.

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   charlesm | Mar 09, 2006 11:17pm | #3

   A flat gring rip blade will work or we just came out with a two blade set specifically for this. Item is SBOX8 and it has tip angles optimized for end cuts. The two blades will stack face to face to make 1/4" slots or back to back for 3/8" slots. HTH

   Charles M

   Freud America, Inc.

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   forestgirl | Mar 10, 2006 08:35pm | #4

   Ooooo, I'd forgotten about the Freud box-joint cutter set.  Cool thing and the few reports I've seen have been super-positive.  Here's a link.  Click on the "larger image and other views" link and you'll see (sorta) how it works.  Price looks to be around $56.

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 
   

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   Pondfish | Mar 11, 2006 06:47am | #5

   The Freud set looks good; you can also get a Forrest blade ground to make flat bottom cuts, but then your finger joints will only be 1/8".

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   rickles13 | Mar 13, 2006 05:41pm | #6

   Siskiyou

   I bought and have used the Freud SBOX8 and it works great and very easy to use! Just as advertised easy to set up, just make your own basic tablesaw jig , one setup and every joint is cut the same, I would highly recommend this blade, every joint I have cut so far has been excellent.

   Thanks

   R13

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   BruceS | Mar 15, 2006 04:06am | #7

   I too have used the Freud Box Joint blades,  Actually  I work in a Woodworking Outlet Store and gave a DEMO yesterday.  As you know, while making Boxes you are cutting end grain.  I was very impressed with how well the blades cut.  I also used the MIGHTY JIG  Which We sell.   OK I work at  http://WWW.EAGLEAMERICA.COM   I took less than ten minutes to knock out the 8 ends of the box,  probably should  have taken a little more time and clamped each pass and you can actually do two ends at a time,  which I did on another box.   If your a fan of double sided tape you can do all four ends at once (  just remember to offset two of the sides the width of the joint tongue.

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

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   ohcomeon | Mar 15, 2006 08:25pm | #8

   I've wondered about this myself and I was surprised that Freud came out with their product.  I have not yet bought a stacked dado set, but I assumed the outer blades on most/all were flat grind.  Does anyone use a dado setup for their finger joints or splines, etc where you don't want the little "ears" in the bottom of the cut (that come from an ATB)?