Buck Turgidson wrote:
I have a 10-year old B & D table saw. It appears that the arbor is
too short to add a dado blade. I don't really have the space or
budget for a new saw now.

I'd like to build some bookshelves, and make dados in the side rails
for the shelves. I just finished making a bookshelf where I cut the
dados with a backsaw and straight-edge clamped to the work. It
worked well, but getting uniform depth on the cuts was difficult.

Looking for suggestions on how to cut accurate dados with a dado
blade. For the dados close to the end of the work, I was thinking I
could clamp 2 shelf-size boards to the fence before the blade, and
use the miter to cut. Then remove one of the boards and cut again.

Is there a better way?

Other than a router, you could halve (or more) the passes with your saw
by using two or more blades on it.

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