I must post about my table saw at some point…
Anyhow, I want to start making more of my own beekeeping kit — ideally as much as possible, and whilst box joints aren’t required they’re a neat way to join timber at a right angle. I watched far too many YouTube, struggled out of a few wood-working rabbit-holes and ended up making a jig based on some of the ideas I’d seen:
As I only had one blade I stuck with a fixed size for the fingers and just got on with the cutting. I can’t deny it was quite tedious, but I got there eventually and the end result on a couple of scrap bits of timber was pretty good.
What has become obvious however is that the fingers are just too thin and take too long to cut — the standard blade is only just over 2mm side. A dado cutter would be the left-pondian solution, but I’ve read that in the UK and Europe there’s a requirement that once the power is cut off a table-saw blade must stop rotating within something like ten seconds and there’s no way something with the mass of a dado cutter would stop that quickly. In fact the arbor just isn’t up to carrying a dado cutter either. So I found the widest-toothed blade that I could (6mm) and ordered one with flat-topped teeth (so the inner part of the joint comes out square).