"toller" wrote in
:

I bought a Freud S208 on eBay for $74.

I used it last week to cut some 3/4" dados in butternut. It was
perfect.

Today I did some 5/16" in red oak. The bottom was uneven (I used the
1/16" cutter, last week I didn't; maybe it cuts high?) and there was
serious tearout on the ends.

This was my first time with a dado set; I have always used a router
before. Is it typical, or is the S208 just not ready for prime time?
(or am I doing something wrong?)

Thanks.




I just had another thought...

DAMHIKT, but if one were to inadvertantly swap the right and left blades in
the SD208 set, a really sorry-@$$ dado is the result. Hypothetically
speaking, of course.

And no self-respecting wooddorker would ever do this, you understand. At
least not intentionally.

But the arrows are on the side for a reason. Or so I have been led to
believe.

Patriarch