On 7/18/2011 8:12 PM, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:26:23 -0500, Leonlcb11211@swbelldotnet
wrote:
On 7/18/2011 5:24 PM, wrote:
Building a workbench. Plans call for a dado (4 of them) to
hold cross braces at the ends. The dado cut is to be
1 1/2 inches deep by 3 inches wide. My 6 inch dado
with the adjustable dial (Freud) can only cut 1 inch deep
or less.
Suggestions?
Thought of the following solutions but hope there might
be others:
1) use regular sawblade and make the cuts (tedious as the
dados have to be 3 inches wide), by going back and
forth over the length of the cut.
2) use a router
3) use the Freud dado and use a router for
the last 1/2 inch.
4) chop them out - saw and chisel - ala mortise/tenon.
5) buy a 8" dado set. Expensive for a good set. I'd like
to see if there is a $50 solution first.
- How about it? Is there a good way of doing this?
Is this going to be a 2x4 work bench?
If he only goes 1" on the dadoes, it's going to have a catastrophic
failure the very first time he builds a battleship on it.
--
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
-- Sophocles
I built a workbench out of 2X4. It has a piece of 2' X 4' plywood for
the top, dado into a 2 X 4 half lapped frame.
Where I was concerned about strenght, I cut the 1/2" dados into both
pieced of the 2X4 joint. This gave me an inch overlap for the joint.
For reference it is on wheels and is the exact height of my table saw,
so it can be used as an outfeed for the saw.
I glued and screwed all joints.
I made the it about 15 years old, and still as stable as the day I
finished it.
One other thing, I varished it, instead of painting as my brothers
thought I should do. It has darkened in that time but looks as good as
it did when I finished it.
One other thing, I used good hard rubbe wheels. But over the years,
they have developed flat spots. from the tools that I keep on the two
shelves, and the end cabinets. If I was to re wheel or build an new
bench, I would use steel wheels or ones with minimum rubber tire on steel.