The next step on my radio desk is cutting the dados. Thanks for the lesson Dan and Mickey.
Regards. Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mickey Fixsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 2:49 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] More on the cedar closet project. > An easy way to make dados on opposite sides of a cabinet line up when > using a router to make the dados is to clamp them together so that one > setup for a particular dado does them both at the same time. For example, > you would lay both sides on a bench with the inside faces of the side > facing up and the edges that are the back of the cabinet touching each > other. Flush up the tops and bottoms and put a couple of clamps across > them to hold them in place. Now you can set up your guide and run the > router to do both sides at once. As long as you keep everything square, > the dados will always line up with each other. > > Good luck with your project. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan Rossi > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 1:32 PM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] More on the cedar closet project. > > > Micky, > > You are correct. It is Western Red Cedar, not aromatic. I keep making > that mistake, I guess it is because of how fragrant it is when I am > working with it. > > anyway, the wife had off on Monday for MLK day, so I was jealous and took > the day off as well. I spent some quality time in the basement screwing > up my closet. and I don't mean putting screws into it. > > On Saturday I had routed the dados on the inside of one of the closet > walls. I did all the math, distance from rail to rail minus the thickness > of the floor and ceiling. Minus the thickness of three shelves, divide by > four. Take into account the radius of the router shoe, the radius of the > cutter. Clamp up a guide rail, take measurements, square everything to > hell and back. Route the first dado. Move everything, measure measure > measure. Square square square. Measure a bit more. rout the second > dado. Move everything again. measure? OK, two short shelves and one > tall shelf is probably a better design anyway. Who wants three evenly > spaced shelves? Too rigid, too uniform. We need more variation in our > lives. > > Monday, the big trick, making the dados on the other closet wall to line > up exactly with the first set. Measure measure measure. Calculate. > Measure. Calculate some more. You know that saying, always go with your > first choice? Anyway, rout the first dado. Line up the two panels next > to each other. After I finished screaming, throwing a few small items, > kicking the work bench, and absolutely stunned as to why the bottom of > the > one dado lines up precisely with the top of the dado I just cut, it dawns > on me that I forgot to take into account the thickness of the floor on > Mondays cut. > > OK, I can recover. I'll have to widen out the dado so that the top edge > of the new dado lines up with the top of the old one. I'll just have to > cut a quarter inch strip off some scrap and glue it in to fill the gap. > > I opted for a different plan for the next two dados. I had my doubts, but > gave it a try. I tried lining up the panels side by side. I clamped the > rails together to make as sure as possible that the dados were in the > same > relative positions to the bottom rails. I put the router into the far end > of the dado on the finished panel. I turned the cutter so that it was at > it's widest position. I loosely clamped one end of a guide stick down. > Moved the router to the end of the dado near where it ran into the new > board that hadn't been routed yet. Did the same thing and clamped that > end of the guide stick. Now I had a guide that was perfectly parallel to > the dado. Some measuring proved this to be true as well. > > It worked very nicely. Just took for ever since I had to do this two > times for each dado. I made the mistake of assuming my 1X8 cedar boards > were 3/4 X 7 1/2. Yeah, well not exactly. I guess because they are > unfinished on one side, they are actually 15/16 thick. And they are a bit > wider than 7.5 inches as well. Since I had to cut a 15/16 dado, I had to > make two passes for each one since I don't have a cutter that wide. > > Well, the dados are all routed now. I need to make the shelves, each one > will be three planks of cedar biscuit joined together. I hate gluing. > > I also have to stretch a couple of the 2X4 rails since I cut them with > the > assumption of 3/4 by 7 1/2 boards. > > Oh well, it's all good learning. > > Later. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.12/628 - Release Date: > 1/15/2007 11:04 AM > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! 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