Originally Posted by
Andrew Seemann
I had never heard of it before that other thread on rabbet planes this week. It seems like a baffling amount of extra work to make something easy that is already easy.
Another oft unmentioned use of the rabbet trick is to hide any mis-cuts from the saw or baseline paring on the inside of the dovetail.
As with other helper tricks it isn't needed if one has learned to do without it. Also as others have mentioned, if done incorrectly it can lead you astray.
jtk
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