How To Cut A Straight Line With A Router. How to choose a router bit for dado cuts. We usually use a round bit and when it comes out it makes a cool looking end. Use the router fence or clamp a straight edge at both ends and make sure it wont flex as you have to push firmly against it with the router.

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Here's the dado i want to cut all laid out. Everyone hates the moment of realization when you have cut a crooked line along. Various home projects call for cutting shapes out of pieces of wood and not all of them have straight lines.

On it you can draw the cut line with the help of a straight edge.

For cutting plywood with a router, you need a special bit called a sprial upcut/downcut compression cut on the right was made with the spiral downcut bit. Have you ever struggled with cutting a straight line or dado groove with a router? It can cut the dovetails for the drawer or even the case sides. Use the router fence or clamp a straight edge at both ends and make sure it wont flex as you have to push firmly against it with the router. Open the collet of the router and replace the blade with a 2 flute carbide router bit. Straight edges without a jointer. Either measure the distance from the edge of the router bit to the inside edge of the fence, or set the fence distance by hand by placing the fence over the piece you wish to cut. The groove for the decorative stringing at left was cut with an 1/8 straight bit.