Once you use a backsaw to chop grooves, dadoes, or sliding dovetails, right here’s a easy method to make sure constant depth. Connect a 1/4-in.-thick piece of wooden to at least one or each side of the noticed, with the wooden pressed in opposition to the sawback, or backbone, of the noticed and held in place with jumbo-size (at the least 2-1/4-in.) binder clips. The width of the wooden strips determines the depth of minimize. Mark and save your depth-stop items, and you can also make the identical minimize each time.
—Larry Matthews, Higher Darby, Pa.
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