Short length, exact-width dado jig

[Prashun Patel]

I am looking for a commercially available version of a dado jig to work with a plunge router. Basically a "Perpendicular Mortisepal" - if that makes sense...

I could make one, but I've learned that (for me) buying precision jigs leads to longer term happiness for me than building my own.

[Jerome Hanby]

Woodhaven has a jig. On Amazon

[Prashun Patel]

Thanks, Jerome. But I'm looking for something that I can cut dados (not mortises) with on narrow pieces like a chair leg.

[Neil Brooks]

Thanks, Jerome. But I'm looking for something that I can cut dados (not mortises) with on narrow pieces like a chair leg.

Since I'm still not 100% clear ....

Do you mean down the length of a chair leg, or across the width of the chair leg.

If it's down the length, I'm thinking about your basic router edge guide.

[Prashun Patel]

Across the width: as if you were making a dado across the width to accept a shelf.

[Neil Brooks]

Hmm. I'd think the problem .... would inherently be stability, unless you were cutting the dadoes in all four -- or however many -- legs at once.

This isn't one you can do on the table saw, with a stacked dado head and a miter gauge ?

[Dave Gaul]

Doesn't Infinity tools make some kind of jig like that?

[Neil Brooks]

Doesn't Infinity tools make some kind of jig like that?

If you're thinking of this one, it looks like it would only make the dado lengthwise, on the stock ... in Prashun's case.

In other words ... it seems like a variation on the router edge guide.

Does that seem right to you ?

[Rob Fisher]

Something like this...?

http://www.amazon.com/Woodhaven-789X.../dp/B001NZ4QZ6

Not cheap but looks pretty well built.

[glenn bradley]

This isn't one you can do on the table saw, with a stacked dado head and a miter gauge ?

+1 unless I am not picturing it right ;-) The tablesaw and a carrier guided on one of my sleds would also be my preferred method of making this type of repeated cross cut.

[Dave Gaul]

If you're thinking of this one, it looks like it would only make the dado lengthwise, on the stock ... in Prashun's case.

In other words ... it seems like a variation on the router edge guide.

Does that seem right to you ?

Yeah. I didn't quite picture what Prashun was trying to do.

Prashun, couldn't you do this on a router table?