Tongue And Groove Table Saw Blade

Run your piece on both sides.

Tongue and groove table saw blade.

And with the saw turned on slowly raising the blade into the auxiliary fence. Blades llc carbide tipped saw blades router bits shaper cutters shaper bits woodworking cutting tools our tongue and groove cutters include wedge tongue groove 1 2 3 4 bore v paneling and flooring cutter sets. There are diy applications for this joint too such as v groove wainscot or wood flooring. Measure your tongue opening to try and get the proper fit but use a scrap piece to make trial cuts until you get a snug fit.

You can do it all at the router table easily with three different cutter approaches. For the tongue use a regular blade also. You can now fine tune the width of your rabbet by adjusting your rip fence instead of the width of your dado set. Straight bit and rabbeting bit step 1.

On the table saw to produce a tongue and groove on the table saw use a dado cutter rather than your everyday blade unless your stock is 3 8 or less in thickness. Make the usual double pass to guarantee that your groove is exactly centered. It could be 1 4 to 3 16ths wide. This causes the diamond grit to wear away and expose more diamond grit.

While the blade cuts the material exerts wear on the blade exposing the diamond grit on the rim. Then hold a piece of the stock against the fence and adjust that position so that the blade makes its cut as close to centered as you can get it by eye. Cutting the narrow centered groove and the corresponding tongue to fit into it doesn t take a dado blade and table saw. I use the two outside cutters to produce a 1 4 cut width when working 3 4 stock.

Thicker stock calls for a wider groove. Every woodworker should be familiar with cutting them on the table saw. Official website of freud tools. Bury part of the blade in the fence by lowering the blade below the table.

Generally speaking it s easier to cut the groove of a t g joint first then mill the tongue to fit the groove. For the groove i set the blade height to 1 2. I use a standard kerf width table saw blade usually a combination blade to make all of the cuts when forming tongue and groove joints. The cuts made when creating the two mating workpieces of a tongue and groove joint are non through cuts meaning that the saw blade never goes all the way through the wood.

Moving the auxiliary fence over the blade.