transatlantic":ysq9lcy1 said:ah, I see what you mean. I wanted to dado it because I think it looks cleaner and hides the end grain of the ply wood.
...I know it's only a shop stand, but it's all practise
memzey":neizfhyh said:I understand a housing to be cut across the grain and a groove to be cut along it. Could be well wrong though!
AndyT":1tvkmh7u said:Transatlantic, if the discussion is still about a utilitarian workshop stand, there's a simple option for your first picture - clamp the parts together and drill holes through both pieces, from the outside. Glue some dowels and knock them in. Flush off the ends when the glue is dry.
This way you can even deliberately angle the dowels, like skew nailing, which you can't do with any commercial jig.
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