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02-25-2015 12:55 AM

I spent a lot of time laminating 3/4” plywood together for the sides of a flip top cart and was routing the dados for a drawer opening at the bottom of the side panels. Unfortunately I was only using a straightedge to guide the router and it veered off course in a couple of spots. One spot is obviously pretty bad. Is there a good, fairly simple way of fixing this dado without remaking the side panel and basically starting over? Maybe such as filling in the dado and re-routing it?

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Minorhero home \| projects \| blog 373 posts in 2361 days #1 posted 02-25-2015 01:23 AM	Easiest thing to do would be to make the problem worse and then fix it. By that I mean route a wider grove, this time make it straight. Once you have a straight cut you can cut a piece of wood to glue into place and fill the gap.
mahdee home \| projects \| blog 3798 posts in 1523 days #2 posted 02-25-2015 01:26 AM	Mark it an extra 1/8” and add a 1/8” ply to the drawer? -- earthartandfoods.com
mahdee home \| projects \| blog 3798 posts in 1523 days #3 posted 02-25-2015 01:26 AM	Mark it an extra 1/8” and add a 1/8” ply to the drawer? -- earthartandfoods.com
Fred Hargis home \| projects \| blog 4614 posts in 2249 days #4 posted 02-25-2015 01:06 PM	I agree with widening it, and then filling the whole thing. At that point you re cut the dado. Just a guess, but it looks like you may have been going the wrong way with the router. -- Our village hasn't lost it's idiot, he was elected to congress.
todd4390 home \| projects \| blog 136 posts in 1224 days #5 posted 02-25-2015 01:34 PM	Thanks for all the feedback guys. I did indeed run the router in the wrong direction and went back last night and widened the dado enough to accept a 3/4” and 1/2” laminated plywood shelf so I’m good to go now.

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