Freud Box Joint Dado - $52.21

[annunaki]

Correction

I paid shipping

[Knottscott]

I ordered it at the $66.77 Price,with super saver shipping (no shipping cost), so how do I get a rebate for the lower price?

Sounds like you ordered it through a third party seller...Polsteins maybe? I'd cancel if you can, and order it through Amazon.com.

[annunaki]

You were right

Original order was through True Value.
I just sent them an email requesting to cancel, went back on Amazon and followed your instructions and got the lower price.
Thank you.

[SARGE..g-47]

Hey Sarge - If you bought it from Amazon, they'll credit the difference if you contact their customer service. You can even email them.

Nah... got it from Dave at Peachtree Woodworking about 15 minutes down the street. I prefer supporting the locals unless the price is just totally ridiculous. I'm in there at least once a week and if he supports me by telling me of anything that got scratched or nicked, or over-stock that he will sell at cost.. so it all works out in the wash.

Regards...

[rnelson0]

Just curious, what's the difference between this and the 8" stacked dado set from Freud? What I mean is, for the thicknesses that the box joint dado does, does it have any significant advantage over setting the stacked dado to the same thickness? I already own the stacked dado set (red carrying case, costs about $100, does up to 23/32" thickness I think)

[LCHIEN]

One difference is you only have two pieces to mess with, no chippers.
Depending on which face you put towards each other you get 1/4 or 3/8" dado, essentially a specialized set with two sizes.

The other difference is the outer blades of the Freud standard dado are beveled slightly to give a very clean cut, esp. in laminates. You can see that there is a very fine line at the outer edges of the bottom of the dado where the scoring tips have done thier jobs. The box joint set I'm betting does very flat tops so you can reverse the blades to get the two sizes and still have perfectly flat bottoms. You usually would not be making box joints with laminates so I guess you would not miss the bevels's scoring abilities.

I thought about getting a box joint set but I really don't need more stuff cluttering the shop. I think the dado blade does a fine ehough job even with the minute score lines it'll be just fine if and when i do some box joints IF I do the box joints with the table saw.

P.S. Basically for this set you get perfection at the two specific sizes and give up in return the capability to do any other sizes.

[SARGE..g-47]

Just curious, what's the difference between this and the 8" stacked dado set from Freud? What I mean is, for the thicknesses that the box joint dado does, does it have any significant advantage over setting the stacked dado to the same thickness? I already own the stacked dado set (red carrying case, costs about $100, does up to 23/32" thickness I think)

There are no chippers as in a dado set.. and the tooth is flat giving you a perfectly smooth bottom. The set also gives no tear-out sides. The blades are "silver ice" coated and very sharp.. very sharp.. Ease of set-up with perfect 1/4" and 3/8" ( I put them to a micro-meter test) described by Loring.

Put it this way.... I sold my Super 6 dado set about a month ago. Good.. but I got better results with a router. Picked up the Freud box set and frankly... it's not for sale at any price as it is the best set up for 1/4" and 3/8" groves and box joints I have ever seen.

The draw-back is it will only do 1/4" and 3/8" and there is no way to make it do larger because of the configuration according to Charlie Mac the Freud rep at their N.C. national HQ. I have known Charlie Mac quite a while.. and if he says so... you can about take it to the bank..