Freud Inc SD208 Dado Blade
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Stack dado set has anti kickback, splinter free cuts, negative hook angle for flat bottom grooves. Can be used on table saws, radial arm saws for cutting slots, grooves, dadoes, and rabbets in plywood, hard, and softwoods. Includes: (2) outside blades, ca Product details and pricing info |
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56 Customer Reviews Posted
- Excellent item
- First I tried the wabbling type... Disaster. Destroyed my wood. The force of the wabble moved the wood and totally messed up the job. This item does a clean smooth dado cut with excellent corners. recommend it highly.
- 2005-10-17, 5 of 6 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Good blades....terrible customer service
- I have owned this dado set for 3 years now and I have used it to cut many grooves and dados in lots of different materials with near perfect results. When I first bought the blade I encoutered an issue regarding the mislabeling of the product. No matter how many times I attempted to get the correct product from Freud they would never correct the problem. I am keeping the blades but as a matter of principle I will never buy another Freud product again or recommend it to anybody. I would rather spend the extra money and get courteous reliable service along with my product.
- 2005-06-09, 6 of 7 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Great Dado set for the money
- I'm a hobby woodworker and don't use a dado set too often. So when I went looking for a dado set, I wanted one that was low cost. I first tried a set from Avenger, which is a set made in China. It was a real piece of junk. It didn't make accurate width dados and the chippers were different diameters, which left grooves in the bottom of the dado.
I finally took the Avenger set back and bought this Freud 6 inch set. The difference is night and day. If I set up the Freud set for a 3/8 inch dado, it is dead on at 3/8 inch. The bottom of the dado is absolutely smooth - not even a hint of unevenness.
The only negative about the Freud set is that the spacers are not marked and it's extremely hard to tell the difference between two spacers that are close in size. I realize that Freud may not have wanted to stamp them because a stamp might have changed the thickness in the area of the stamp, but the sizes could have been etched on.
Other than this one problem, I am completely happy and satisfied with this dado set. - 2005-02-08, 11 of 11 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- good product
- Easy to use. Makes clean, square cuts, although the top needs to be cleaned up a little. If I use the entire set, I can only get the nut onto the arbor of my Delta contractor's saw. This seems to work fine, though. The shims aren't labelled as to their width.
- 2005-01-27, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Try to get it sharpened
- I run a small woodworking shop and I purchased the Dial-A-Width Dado. I think it is a great dado, but it has a -12 degree grind on it. Every sharpening shop in Denver cannot sharpen it without buying an expensive computer program for their machines and they will not buy it unless they can make enough off the sharpening to pay for it. I called Freud about having them sharpen it and they said they are not in the sharpening business. Buyer beware.
- 2004-12-28, 28 of 39 people found this review helpful, Rated:
