On 1/19/17 12:02 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 07:17:02 -0500, "dadiOH"
wrote:


"Leon" lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote in message
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On 1/18/2017 6:20 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 1/18/2017 6:51 PM, Electric Comet wrote:
at first it sounds like an interesting idea but introducing a
little too much chaos for me


they are inexpensive but would not think it would be good for
the saw or the material or the operator



who has used a wobble dado


the cut could not have come out very good



You want cheap or quality? You want "close enough" or
professional cuts and fit? The corners won't be as square
because of the way it cuts. Another opinion here
http://www.newwoodworker.com/reviews/wobbledado.html


Actually the sides of the dado are square to the surface of the
material but the bottom is rounded so it is not square to the
sides of the dado.

I have used a wobble dado many times.

It is not harmful to the saw and it runs very smoothly.

From there, the cuts suck. The wobble dado sets cut rounded
bottom dados. If you are using construction grade lumber and need
to cut dados the wobble dado will suffice for rough work.

Don't use if for furniture.

I do. From time to time. The slightly rounded bottom can be
handled in a couple of ways...

1. Ignore it.

2. Clean it. I have a dado cleaning router bit for that purpose.

But mostly, I use my wobble dado to hog out most but not all of the
dado/groove I want. It does that very well. I then finish with
one pass of a router bit for final width and depth.

How do you guide the router? Seems if you're going to all that
trouble it would be easier to just use the router.


True, in some cases and as usually it just depends on what you're doing.
While router bits are great for making, clean, precise, square cuts,
they are not particularly well suited for hogging out a bunch of material.

As people will do with rough cutting down plywood into smaller sections,
then doing the precise cutting on the TS, I've done the opposite on a
few projects that made it more efficient for me. You hog out the bulk
of material on the TS, quickly and with little effort. They you clean
it up with a precise cut using the router.

Maybe one day I'll spend the cash for an excellent set of dado blade
that do, in fact, produce a perfectly straight and square bottom withOUT
bat ears and I won't feel the need to clean the cut up with the router.


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