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- Features Freud’s TiCo Hi-Density Carbide with Titanium for long life and a flawless finish
- Adjusts in .004″ increments and a maximum 29/32″ cut width
- Adjust easily to right or left operating machines
- Set includes two outer blades, five chippers, Dado Tips & Tricks DVD, wrench, and storage case.
- Cuts all composition material, plywood, veneered plywoods, hardwoods, and softwoods.
Product Description
The Dial-A-Width Dado set performs like a stacked dado, but Freud has replaced the shims with a patented dial system, and their exclusive Dial hub ensures accurate adjustments. Each click of the dial adjusts the blade by .004″. The Dial-A-Width is easy to use and very precise. Set includes two outside blades, five chippers, a wrench and a carrying case. 5/8″ arborAmazon.com Product Description
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I’ve purchsed Freud blades for my contractors TS before and have been very pleased, so I decided to buy their dado. The quality of this blade is excellent! The case which holds the outter blades, chippers, and shims is a thin plastic but firm foam lines the inside to keep everything supported and in-place. The blades and chippers are kept separated, while they’re in the case, by a dimped plastic disks; they seem to do a decent job. As for the cut – smooth and glasslike on both the sides and bottom!! The only thing that bothers me is that the chippers are not labeled. To choose which configuation of chippers for a particular thinkness requires you to mic them.
It cleanly and easily cuts through oak to particle board. No chipping or tear out.
The only improvement to this dado blade would be to stamp the chipper with its thickness. Otherwise it is a very good purchase.
Rating: 5 / 5
I recently purchased the SD206. It fit my needs well as a part time wood worker. Lots of meat on the carbide, very accuarate when set up correctly. Set up on my BT3K, Ive used it on poplar, white oak and plywood. Great results. Freud could beef up the instructions a bit, and I purchased magnetic shims. Overall. great value for performance, Id recommend to anyone.
Rating: 5 / 5
Having two dado sets already, I was frustrated that I couldn’t get a chip-free cut in oak plywood. Even though I felt that the $154 price of this set was steep, I decided to try it. What a pleasure! I only have one suggestion: color code the shim stock so that quick placement is possoble. As it is now, you have to mic each shim to get what you want. I used some nail polish to color-code each one, but Freud could do us all a favor and identify each different size when the product is made. I would certainly recommend this dado set to anyone-beginner or experienced!
Rating: 5 / 5
I purchased this dado set on the recommendations of my brother, who is a professional finish carpenter and cabinet maker. He only uses Freud blades. I had previously had another brand that was fine for ripping dadoes but destroyed any wood during crosscut dadoes. The set arrived last saturday and I dropped what I was doing and had to try it out. I spent two hours “playing ” with the set, cut dado’s in melamine, birch plywood, oak plywood, solid maple and oak, mdo and mdfb. Man, this is a great little set. Though smaller than the set my brother uses (same set my Dad used for years), it suits my so called “underpowered” saw. Every dado was as clean as anyone could hope to accomplish, even on crosscuts. The tearout was so minimal, it’s not worth talking about. The channel is clean and flat, every bit as nice as any dado I ever cut with a router. No burning and the feed rate is consistant with what I would use for crosscutting veneer plywood. After recieving the set, I recieved my latest copy of “American Woodworker”, they had just done a review of dado sets and the SD206/208 was rated “Best Buy”. For those of us that do this for fun, this is definitly a “Best Buy”.
Rating: 5 / 5
After finally giving up on my inexpensive Craftsman dado set, which burned more wood than it cut and had more gum on it than blade, I went looking for something that would make dadoes that (gasp) were actually flat on the bottom, at a price I could afford, and that would work on my smaller saw, a Ryobi BT3000. This Freud set filled the bill nicely. It cuts a nice flat-bottomed dado, is highly adjustable with the included set of shims (though there’s little way to tell which shim is which) and has been resistant to gumming up. The triple-angle rake on the outside blades has been great for sharp, flat sides to my cuts. This is not the ultimate dado set; with few teeth and a negative chipper angle, it tends to get pretty hot and slow cutting a 3/4″ wide, 1/4″ deep slot in hardwood. Multiple passes may be in order. However, the size and price and cut quality were all I was looking for, and I’m completely satisfied. Unless you have a bigger saw or require faster production, this is probably all the dado you’ll ever need.
Rating: 5 / 5