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routers for woodworking reviews, (jazzy music) marc:i'm in the middle of making some shop cabinets, andi thought it would be a good time to show youhow i fine tune my dados.
and i actually use a hand tool to do it. this tool right here is a router plane and it's called that because, essentially, you can see how the blade sticks out from the bottom. you have this nice, flat platform, and you can use it todo a lot of the things that we use a powered router for. but the thing is, sincethis is a fixed distance
from the base, it's great for cleaning up dados that we've made on a machine. and the reality is,the dados that we make, sometimes, just are not an even depth. and that's because the plywood, especially on larger pieces, can liftup as we push it through. so let me show you how to use this. it's very straightforward. you basically want to set the blade
to a known depth. so, for instance, atthe beginning of my cut i know that i'm exactly 1/8 of an inch, that's where i want to be. and you can see that my blade is set so it's not cutting any material there. so all you really needto do, just make sure everything is nice and tight. go over all of the areas that you've cut
and find spots where it starts to lift material up. okay, those are areas where the work piece was raised a little bit. and right here, i can even see, just the material changes. i've got a little bitof an mdf layer, here, that needs to go away. i'm just going to do this for all
of the dados in this particular project. you can see this one's pretty bad, here. all right, if you start to pull up a little bit too much material you may want to go from the other end. and work your way down. now, the reason we worry about this at all is because, if you don'tdo this, you may have an uneven depth as yougo across the length
of the board. so, let's say this is, maybe, a bookcase side or a cabinet side. once you put this other piece in here and you clamp everything together, you may wind up on the outside of your case with a bow as soon asyou put clamping pressure on there because it's not an even depth. so, honestly, to avoidfrustration and to make sure
you projects come out nice and clean, it's probably not a bad idea to invest in a router plane. it's a great tool andit's probably, next to my block plane, one of my most used hand tools in the shop. so i highly recommend you get one. (music)
