"Dado Storage"

**Tom Slick** · 08-03-2007, 07:43 PM

This isn't very helpful but my Freud set came with a very nice plastic holder.

**Knottscott** · 08-03-2007, 07:50 PM

**cgallery** · 08-03-2007, 09:06 PM

Oooh! Give me a day. I'm hoping to finish my blade garage tomorrow night. It will hold ten blades plus a dado set (which I never, ever use). I'll post some pictures when I'm done.

**BT3 WOODOG** · 08-03-2007, 09:19 PM

I'll be waiting!!!

**Pappy** · 08-03-2007, 09:21 PM

I keep my SD206 in the original plastic case. The handle is notched for pegboard hooks.

**Thom2** · 08-03-2007, 09:41 PM

all 4 of mine are in their original packing right now ... 2 freud's and 2 HF's ..

The freuds will always stay in their packing because freud was just smart about it, the freud caddy holds the blades, chippers and shims all in one nice compact unit.

The HF's will probably stay in their packing as well until I store them in a trash can

**cabinetman** · 08-04-2007, 06:00 AM

I also use the original packing cage for the blades for the Forrest set.
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**Knottscott** · 08-04-2007, 11:47 AM

Originally posted by BT3 WOODOG

I'll be waiting!!!

Ok...guilted me into it.

This is an old wooden case I modified for my former Freud 208 that had chippers with 2 teeth....this pic was staged just for viewing purposes. My DW set has 4 tooth chippers and doesn't fit (or need it), I substituted some shim stock to represent where the Freud chippers went...they don't show up well, but if you use your imagination a bit you'll "get the picture". The dowel held all the chippers in place....simple, crude, and functional.

**BT3 WOODOG** · 08-04-2007, 01:16 PM

Hey,it works!!!

**JimD** · 08-04-2007, 05:35 PM

My blades including my Freud dado set are in a drawer under the BT3100. I use 1/4 thick waferboard scrap with a 3/4 hole in the center to separate the blades. I do the same thing with the outer blades and the chippers of the dado set. The bottom of the drawer if 7/16 water and I glued 5/8 dowel that was a little undersized to holes in the bottom of the drawer. It takes a minute to take off the top blades to get bottom blades out but the blades are always handy and the drawer also has slots for the wrenches and space for shims (they lay loose).

Jim

**cgallery** · 08-04-2007, 10:29 PM

Okay, here is my solution. I have a Forrest 6" Dado King that I never use (too much trouble to install). I purchased it before I built my router table. Still, I keep it in case some day I need to make lots and lots dados.

I also have about seven or eight blades, and wanted a way to organize those, too. So I built a little blade garage to hold everything.

Just a simple BB box made from a bunch of scraps. Blades sit on pieces of 1/4" hardboard that slide into slots in the cabinet. There is 1/2" between each sliding shelf. To keep the blades aligned (so it looks nice) and to prevent them from sliding around if I pickup the entire cabinet, I used some push-on nuts (the kind you'd use to hold wheels on a small children's wagon). I simply drilled a recess in the hardboard using a 15/16" Forstner bit and glued the push-on nuts in.

The dado shelf takes two spaces and uses a 1" long spacer from McMaster (#92319A772). This spacer has a hex (minor) width of 1/2", which means it fits the inside of a 5/8" arbor hole very nicely. It is fully threaded (1/4"-20). So I screwed a machine screw through the bottom of the tray and into the spacer. Then I placed a 9/16" fender washer over it, then the dado stack, then a neoprene washer, steel washer, and finally a 1/4"-20 Phillips head screw to secure it all.

A couple of other design considerations. I knew the dado set would be heavier than the other blades and may cause that shelf to sag. So I left enough room between the bottom shelf and the bottom of the cabinet so the 1/4" hex-head bolt would just fit and would rest on the bottom of the cabinet--no sag.

I also put some extra holes under the blade trays to make getting them off the shelves a little easier.

Also, I made it so the blades normally sit towards the front of the tray. But as a blade dulls, I can turn the tray around and then the blade will be tucked towards the back. Once I have a few blades towards the back, I can gather 'em up and send them out for sharpening.

Very happy with it. Nothing fancy, but very practical and it cleans up my disorganized pile of blades. Plus I have room for a few more blades.

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