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Dado Clean Out Router Bits
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Clean out rough dado cuts
2 flute, carbide tipped, with a 3/16" cutting length. Clean out rough dado cuts and finish rough stock. The bearing rides on the shoulder of the dado as the base of the router rides on the surface, cleaning out a rough cut with great accuracy. Dado Clean Out bits are great for pattern cutting, Also used for mounting small hinge templates and routing signs. Patent No. 269,348.
"This excerpt is from Woodsmith Magazine #151 titled "Getting a Flat-Bottom Dado". The cuts were made using MLCS Dado Clean Out bits. "Best (Flat-Bottom Dado). To get the tightest, best-looking dado joint, use a dado clean-out bit in a hand-held router. The top-bearing bit is guided by the sides of the dado. So how do you (cut dados)? I've found the best solution to be a combination of a hand-held router and a table saw...The secret behind this technique is an inexpensive router bit. The bits are called dado clean-out bits. And as the name implies, they have only one purpose and one purpose only-to cut perfectly clean and flat dadoes. To do that, the bottom of each bit has two cutting flutes that are ground dead flat. But what makes them different is that the carbide-tipped flutes are short (only 3/16")... Making the cutter length so short reduces the vibration, giving you a cleaner cut."
| Dado Clean Out Router Bits | ||||
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| Item # | Large Diameter |
Shank Size |
Price | |
| #5381 | 31/64" | 1/4" | $16.95 |  |
| #5382 | 1/2" | 1/4" | $16.95 | |
| #5383 | 5/8" | 1/4" | $16.95 | |
| #5384 | 3/4" | 1/4" | $16.95 | |
| #7684 | 3/4" | 1/2" | $19.95 | |
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By Loring C. Chien (Katy TX US)
I find this great for making half lap joints.
I half lap 2x4 and 1x4 sometimes, I use the table saw to make a series of parallel cuts the width (accurate) and close to the depth of the half lap, very fast. Make the cuts every 1/4 inch or so, does not have to be accurate. Leaves narrow wafers standing vertically. You can go in with a screwdriver and break off the wafers leaving a very rough bottom. Then clean it up with this dado clean out in a router table. Use the bearing to guide against the cuts at the far end and then just freehand over the rest of the width with the bit height in the table setting the exact depth desired.