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 (http://www.amazon.com/Woodhaven-789XL-26-Dado-Jig/dp/B001NZ4QZ6)

[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 (http://www.infinitytools.com/Precision-Router-Dado-Jig/productinfo/PDJ-100/), 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-789XL-26-Dado-Jig/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 (http://www.infinitytools.com/Precision-Router-Dado-Jig/productinfo/PDJ-100/), 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?