I’m currently in the process of constructing some dividers for some shelves and need about 10 dados that have to be evenly spaced.
I’m using 5.5 mm 13/64 plywood for this. I’d quickly go on a long rant if I said why I’m using this.
Anyhow. I was hoping to complete this on the table saw and my two undersized 1/8″ forrest blades on my dado stack come out too wide.
So is it safe to use one dado blade and one chipper?
Thanks
Mark
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Mark,
On most dado sets the teeth on the chippers are square rip tooth style for digging out the material sliced by the outer blades. Without an outer blade to cleanly sever the fibers on the sides of the cut you will probably find that there is a lot of deep tear out from the face of the board you are dadoing. It is probably a safe cut however if you take normal precautions.
The easiest solution is to get two or three cheap 7 1/4" diameter thin kerf skilsaw blades and stack them up for a cheap narrow dado blade set. You can put cardboard or paper shims between the blades to fine tune the width of the dado.
John White
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