Heard a guy at the lumber yard say he never uses a dado stack for plywood, just routers and multiple passes.

I mean, I get the clean cut argument, but my Freud stack saves me hours on a big cabinet run, so I'm curious if anyone else thinks the extra setup time is worth it for the speed later.

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the_jenny1mo ago

My old boss was the same way, swore by his router table. But man, once you dial in that stack for a production day, you just fly through the dados.

the_elizabeth1mo ago

I get what you mean about flying through dados with a stack. But setting up a dado stack feels like half the morning gone if you need to change it. My router table is right there, I swap bits in thirty seconds, and I'm back to work. For one-off cuts or mixed work, the flexibility wins every time.