Dado stack12/16/2023 ![]() ![]() Looking to make things groovy? Read on, and I’ll show you some of the best dado blade sets and help you determine which is right for your projects! Our Top Picks for Best Dado Blade Sets in 2023 That said, they usually represent a considerable investment and you’ll want to try and get the right fit the first time. If you don't have a Sawstop then buy any good quality stack eg Freud, CMT, Infinity, Forrest whether its imperial or metric.Dado blade sets are one of the best ways to cut grooves when woodworking, and you can use them with the majority of table saws. I did question them on that but got a "we'll get back to you" response ![]() Incidentally I bought a Sawstop from Timbecon and not once did they say their dado stack wasn't suitable. If you don't you are defeating the purpose of buying an expensive Sawstop. Sawstop have a list of recommended stacks and I use one of them (imperial). On a side note, if you have a Sawstop then that dado stack from Timbecon would not slow fast enough to avoid injury because of its weight and full plate chippers. I then make a sample cut using the exact timber and adjust from there and thanks to that sample board I often don't need to adjust. I have made a board of sample cuts of all the standard widths of timber and tracks eg 12mm, 18mm and noted down the combination of chippers and shims I've used. It makes no sense to buy a metric set just because you mainly use metric. Whether its imperial or metric they are basically infinitely adjustable whatever you get. I wholeheartedly agree with Aldav on this. There's twice as many templates available in Imperial - 51 compared to 26! Because all the cutters available are Imperial the number of joints you can cut with a Metric system are extremely compromised. Midnight Man, I've never understood the point of having a metric Incra fence on a router table unless you have no intention of ever using it to cut dovetails. If you're failing to do a preliminary test cut you'll more likely than not be wasting a lot of your material regardless of whether you're using a Metric or Imperial set. The fact that adjustments will almost certainly have to be made anyway and the width of of the stack can be measured once installed before you've even turned the saw on means that any grave miscalculation will be detected. On an Imperial set the main blades and chippers have a kerf of just under 3.2mm each. You can buy a non-premium 8" (sorry, 203.2mm) dado stack for a bit over $100, the wobble style are even cheaper, so the Torquata set at $299 would seem to me to be particularly poor value. ![]() I would expect it to be good quality, but you shouldn't be paying more than the price charged for premium brands, Freud or CMT for instance. ![]() This blade set will almost certainly be sourced from Taiwan or China. Mick.Torquata is Timbecon's in-house brand, they put their brand on products that they source from various manufacturers. It is a Torquata set of dado blades according to the pictures and their blurb would they not be of reasonable quality? Again totally dependant on the chip placement relative to the disk, and likely to be variable brand to brand, so you would need to physically see a set before purchase to establish whether this is viable or not. By slightly reducing the chip overhang, you would marginally reduce the effective cutting diameter of the outers, so they may not be a perfect match for the chipper diameter, but in my experience they rarely are truly perfectly matched anyway.Ī final option for narrow metric dadoes might be to use a pair of finger jointing blades with some shimming between them to spread them to get the exact width required. Whether this was viable or not would depend on how much the chips overhang the outer side of the disks, and would likely be variable between brands, so it would pay to be able to physically examine a set before purchase to establish suitability. My suggestion would be to make absolutely certain you know what widths you need to produce, and that whatever set you consider can handle that.Īnother option if you need to get to a whole number metric dimension just below the minimum that an imperial set would provide would be to have a saw doctor touch up the edges of both outer blades of an imperial set so that they could cut say 5.8mm when side by side without shimming, so could be lightly shimmed to give the required metric sized dado. But if you need say a 6mm dado and have an imperial set with a minimum 1/4inch (6.35mm) width, your dadoes would be loose. you should be able to set blades, chippers and shims to achieve any cut width, imperial or metric. There would be no advantage to you in having a metric dado set rather than an imperial one, except at the minimum and maximum width settings. ![]()
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