Intermediate Wood: Dado Joinery

Overview:

Delve into the art of dado joinery! Through the use of dado stack blades on the table saw with a dado sled as well as the radial arm saw, students learn to make lap, rabbet and finger joints.


Make a keepsake box with a lid: The sides of the box are finger joints, while the base and lid are rabbeted. From measuring and marking to cutting with jigs and final assembly, each step of the process will be explored.

Students will discover how dado joinery principles translate to a variety of woodworking applications such as construction of painter’s stretcher bars, cabinetry, drawers, and boxes.

For the budding woodworker or a seasoned enthusiast looking to refine and elevate skills to build robust joinery in their woodworking!



What You’ll Learn:

• Blade installation and cartridge changing on the SawStop tablesaw
• Use of dado stack blades on table saw with dado sled
• Use of radial arm saw for precise joinery
• How to make and use a finger joint jig for use on the dado sled
• Developing proficiency in measuring, marking, and cutting wood to precise dimensions  for precision lap and rabbet joints
• Cutting lap, rabbet, and finger joints
• Assembling and finishing a keepsake box with a lid, incorporating learned dado joinery techniques
• Exploring the versatility of dado joinery in various woodworking applications, such as painter’s stretcher bars, cabinetry, and drawers
• Pro tips for glue-ups, staining, waxing, oiling

Please Note:

Students 16 years of age and up can be unaccompanied; ages 12-15 must have a guardian also enrolled in the class.  Minors must have parental permission and signed waiver (ask us).
*PREREQUISITE: Woodshop Badge

About the instructor:
Christy Georg is an Artist / Adventurer. She has worked as a deckhand aboard sailing schooners, thru-hiked the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail and 500-mile Colorado trail, and cruised the Arctic.  Endurance and fortitude drive underlying themes in her work. She has her BFA and MFA in sculpture and brings a 20+ year career with dozens of awards and rich fabrication experience to MAKE, where she’s our Operations Manager. Welding and woodworking are her staples, silversmithing & non-ferrous metalworking are her current studio practice, though she’s worked extensively in slip-casting large ceramics, metal casting, mold-making, glass-blowing, and kinetics.  Problem-solving is her jam!