How To Cut Deep Slots In Wood

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How To Cut Deep Slots In Wood

How To Cut Deep Slots In Wood Stove

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Place the wood to be cut on the routing table horizontally. Using a straight-edged ruler, draw clear and accurate slots boundary on both sides. Ensure you use a sharp and visible pencil while drawing the slot lines. Set the bit size in the router.

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  • For some renovation work, I need to replace a piece of 'filler wood.' It's two inches wide, about 25 inches long, and about 1/4+ inch thick (I cut it out of a piece of wine crate). It fits on one side of the slot it has to slide into, but is about a mm too thick on the other end.
  • Mount a straight plunge-cutting bit in your router and set the router bit to cut about 3/8 in. Deep for the first pass. A plunge router works best, but if you don’t have one, hold the router above the wood and start it. Carefully plunge it into the wood and begin moving it counterclockwise around the circle (Photo 2).

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  • I will need to repair the bottom of a few exterior wood door jamb. Moisture from driving rain has penetrated and caused wood rot at the bottom.

    There is visible rot at the bottom four inches or so. I removed all the loose wood and cut back as high as 12” to get to solid good wood. Putting in a new prehung door is not an option right now.
    I have rebuilt the bottom 12″ of the door jamb and stop. No problem.

    The only issue is the original door stop has a precut slot in the door stop for kerf weatherstripping. I need to make a similar slot IN PLACE in the new door stop.

    How would you make such a slot? What tool? OMT? Router? Dremel? What blade or bit?

    Thank you.

    Sounds like they needed a new entry door.

    Dirty

    A Working Pro since 1988!

    Member since January 26, 2013.

    How deep and wide is the required slot?

    I say 1/2″ deep and the width of slot is about 3/32″, about twice the size of a OMT wood blade.

    Try stacking 2 OMT blades to get the thickness or just cut the slot with one and ride the side to get the desired width.

    Cut the spline off the weather strip and glue and brad nail it in place.

    Dirty

    A Working Pro since 1988!

    Member since January 26, 2013.

    kurt@welkerhomes.com wrote:

    How deep and wide is the required slot?

    I say 1/2″ deep and the width of slot is about 3/32″, about twice the size of a OMT wood blade.

    Try stacking 2 OMT blades to get the thickness or just cut the slot with one and ride the side to get the desired width.

    I was actually thinking about doubling the OMT blades and see if that would work on a scrap piece of lumber. That would be an ultimate hack haha.

    Does that work????

    Edit: just tried…nope. That would have been nice!

    I think I would use a thin kerf circular saw blade to get most of the groove, and the OMT to finish it. Might be a little wobbly, but it’ll be covered so it won’t be too obvious.

    Dremel type rotary tool with router base attatchment and slot cutting bit.

    Router with an edge guide.

    I was thinking dremel purely for the size. Could get the slot closer to the threshold before the base bottomed out.

    You mentioned it has to be cut in place, you mean that stop kurf?
    Can you measure and then cut before you install, I’d do like Sorpa mentioned router and guide

    I’m doing the same thing now…. only I remembered the kerf in the stops.LOL

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