Rabbet And Dado Joints - Page 4 of 6

Recently, I had to rout lots of dadoes in cabinet sides for 3/4-in. plywood shelving. I came up with a method built around a 5/8-in. patternmaking router bit (with the…

The homemade dadoing jig illustrated in Christian Becksvoort's article "Building a Chest of Drawers" (Fine Woodworking #68) is similar to the one I made several years ago. Mine differs in…

In the high-school furniture-making class I teach, we use a router and a parallel guide like the one shown above to cut most of our dado joints. Even though the…

Matching dadoes are a sure thing if you use a plywood template to guide the router.

The secret of this simple wooden tablesaw insert is the hump in the middle. Because the work will touch only at the high point of the hump, dadoes and grooves…

This adjustable depth-stop for the backsaw aids in cutting accurate dadoes, rabbets, and half-lap joints. The idea is adapted from an antique saw I have. The stop is a couple…

Recently, while building a cabinet for cassette tapes, I experimented with several methods for spacing the numerous dadoes needed. Using an auxiliary miter-gauge fence gave the measure of accuracy and…

The concept is simple, but this jig is indispensable for routing dadoes in carcase sides, especially when several dadoes are to be made in one board. Once the jig is…

This simple radial-arm saw method makes it easy to cut mirror- image angled rabbets on the ends of a workpiece, as required for the skirt of a splay-legged table for…

When routing grooves, some people draw a line on the work where the groove will be, then calculate where to clamp the fence. Others draw the line where the fence…