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
- Works great with my Grizzly!
- I have an old G0444 and this blade set works great. The dado cuts are the cleanest I have ever seen, although I have only used about 6 different dado sets before - and never a Forrest. The groove bottoms are very flat - with slightly deeper cuts at the outer edges. I think they do this to score the wood to prevent / reduce splintering. Speaking of splintering, I have used this set to cut dados in 3/4" birch plywood and never had any splintering.
My one complaint: the included wrench doesn't fit my arbor nut (it's metric). I had to go to Kragens and get a 23 mm socket - works great!
The case is fine - but then I would always rather that the manufacturer spend more on the tool than the supplemental stuff.
I feel for those poor souls whose saw won't handle this blade - they are truely missing out!
- 2004-02-19, 7 of 8 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- doesn't work with craftsman 10" saw
- Great reviews in magazines, but will not work with craftsman. nuts hit the arbor and the wrench will not fit the nut. I would have loved to use this dado but I guess the forgot not everyone ownes a unisaw. Very dissappointed.
- 2004-02-01, 14 of 19 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Not for Grizzly either
- I have the same complaints as the previous reviewer, except with a Grizzly ZPRO Contractor Saw. This Dado set is designed to allow the dial to be moved between the two outside blades to accomodate right or left hand arbor. This involves three set-screws with lock nuts on the outside blade that sets against the arbor. These screws and nuts do not clear the arbor mechanism when the blade rotates. After talking with Freud, the only solution is to return the dado set for a refund.
This really needs to be re-engineered - and I'm sure it will be. There are several obvious changes that would eliminate this problem. The simplest of which would be to allow the customer to order a right or left arbor configuration and eliminate the need for the screws/nuts. If they can't do this, they should publish a list of saws that incompatable. It would save a lot of agrivation.
Also, while I liked the practical design of the case, and the absolute protection it gives to the carbide tips, the arbor wrench is useless. This wrench is absolutely required to mount the set because of the width of the dial and the narrow recessed hub in the middle of the dial to accommodate the arbor nut. The hex socket that came with my set was so asymetric that it would fit over the nut in only one if the six possible orientations. This made it impossible to tighten the nut with this wrench. None of my shop wrenches provided a cylinder deep or thin enough to clear the dial and still grab the arbor nut.
Obviously, I can't tell anything about the performance of the set, since I couldn't mount the blade and if I could, I couldn't turn on the saw without sparks, grinding metal and who know what else.
- 2004-01-20, 16 of 21 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Not for Craftman table saws
- Got this for Christmas, the case is cheap plastic, not what I would expect for the price. The back blade has lock nuts for the hub, I would expect tapped screws. On my 10in Sears Craftsman they hit the arbor casting so would have to be spaced out. The front blade has a recess in the hub for your arbor nut. In my case the recess is not large enough to get a wrench (socket) on the saw's nut ( the wrench that come with it is for a smaller nut); also, with all the blades on it's too wide for the arbor. I never cut anything with it as was too much trouble for the price.
- 2004-01-12, 12 of 18 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Fantastic Dado
- I got this dado blade for Christmas, and WOW! is it fantastic.
The fit and finish of the blades is wonderful, although the case seems a bit flimsy. The plastic is pretty thin and hard. It think it would crack pretty easily. I think I'll make myself a wooden carrier in the next few weeks...
I started out by testing it out on some scrap 1/2" Baltic birch plywood. I used the included guide for sizing a 1/2" dado and went to town cutting. Unfortunately, the dado was a bit undersized. BUT, instead of having to remove the outer blade and start adding shims, I just measured the size difference between the dado and the plywood. Each click of the dial is .004" so I divided the difference by .004 and came to 5.5 clicks. I rounded that up to 6 clicks, loosened the nut on the blade, clicked 6 times, tightened and cut. The dado fit perfectly, and it took less than 5 minutes from installing the plates to final cut! This system really works! - 2003-12-26, 21 of 23 people found this review helpful, Rated:
