| Review by JasonWagner | posted 674 days ago | 2056 views | 3 times favorited | 10 comments | ![]() |
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- Oshlun 8" Professional Stack Dado Set
- Brand: Oshlun | Category: Tablesaw Accessories

I bought this “Oshlun 8 dado stack after watching it on Amazon for more than a year. Usually I’m not really cheap but I knew the price would drop eventually. I got it for $55.93 in 04/10 with free shipping and no tax. That’s a lot of C4 carbide for the price. I have two Forrest WWII blades and used to have a Freud 6” dado stack for a contractor saw. This blade set is awesome for the money.
This blade stack will give very small “bat wings” in the bottom of the cut. I have not found this to be an issue and appreciate the clean edges because of the design.
I don’t use dados much but when you need it, you need it. I just made a “story stick” of the width of the blade stack. I have been wanting to do this for quite some time. After about an hour and a half of switching blades out I’m finished and have a good start to guess on future dados.
This set comes with a 1/16” and a 3/32” blade to compensate for undersized plywood. I have not done enough as a hobbiest to say how useful this is but it allows 20 blade combinations from 1/4” to 29/32” without shims. On Amazon people complain about the box, I really wasn’t expecting a nice carrying case. I don’t travel with my dado set anyway so I use a simple blade rack shown in the last picture. Pictures taken with an iPhone so not up to standard quality. After making all those dado troughs I wasn’t in the mood for the DSLR and tripod!
-- some day I hope to have enough clamps to need a clamp cart!





















10 comments so far
Dusty56
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#1 posted 674 days ago
Wow , your link says it only has 42 teeth and the price isn’t even close !
I guess you stole this set : )
edit : I saw that they’re only counting one blade…LOL
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JasonWagner
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#2 posted 674 days ago
42 teeth per outside blade. Each chipper blade has 6 teeth and there are 6 of them. 42+42+36=120. Yeah, the price only goes down about twice a year.
-- some day I hope to have enough clamps to need a clamp cart!
AaronK
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#3 posted 674 days ago
that is a PRETTY good deal!
FYI, you can do a lot of things with a dado blade besides dados. They’re great for tenons, lap joints, and box joints, to name a few.
Wolffarmer
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#4 posted 674 days ago
I have had this for over a year. Works pretty good. The box is junk so I made one for it as my first box project. But your idea for storage is good also.
Randy
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Roger
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#5 posted 674 days ago
what a steal of a deal.. Wow! great buy
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BreakingBoardom
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#6 posted 673 days ago
I also have this set and got it for around $50 when on sale. Great set, especially when on sale. Actually, getting ready to pull it out again for my current project.
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teejk
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#7 posted 673 days ago
thanks for the post…I’ve owned and used the Delta set (I think about $100 10 years ago) and it has served me very well but now I have alternate for that unfortunate day when it goes to the yard.
JasonWagner
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#8 posted 673 days ago
cr1 – I have to say the bat wings are pretty darn small. Not enough for me to worry about for the price or for my projects. I can’t say I’ve made any visible dados, rabbets, tenons, etc…
-- some day I hope to have enough clamps to need a clamp cart!
Brad_Nailor
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#9 posted 672 days ago
I have this dado set and I like it allot. I always get great results with it..flat bottom grooves, no ridges or lines. My only complaint isn’t the box (I keep all my TS blades in a rack)...when I assemble the blades according to the manual They always come up a little short and I always seem to have to use shims, no matter what combo of blades I use. Other than that this is a great set. Thanks for the review
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skidooman93
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#10 posted 672 days ago
I’ve owned this set for 2 years, bought it from Hobren for about $50. I does everything i can think of very well. I owned the expensive 6” freud before this set and was happy with it until I bought this set because a sawstop only runs 8” dados. The bat wings are so small they are only noticeable unless you look for them. I just got done using the blade for 48 tendons. Since owning it I have used it to make over 600 tendons and how many more dados. So for $50 you can’t go wrong. When it is in need of a sharpending I think I will just buy a new set. I honestly think this is the best bang for a buck I have ever gotten when buying a saw blade. Even beats the $50 woodworker II I got a few years back.
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