Clean out your dadoes
I had some dadoes that were cut with a dull blade, and consequently had some shreds of wood stuck to the sides. What’s worse, they were a tad undersized. What to do, what to do…
I took a cabinet scraper and ran it back and forth, shearing off a bit of the edge. It’s easy to keep at 90 degrees so you don’t round over the shoulder, nice and wide so you can control it, and pretty quick. You can’t hold it at a proper angle (it has to be almost flat to fit in the groove) and you have to make two passes on each side, one tilted each direction (it doesn’t scrape all the way to the end in each pass), but all in all, it’s a fast and effective way to widen your dado.
(No, *I* didn’t use a crummy tool. It was from ecabinets–yes a full report, with pictures, is coming soon!)
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