Woodworking Rabbet

You can cut a rabbet as wide as the length of your jointer s cutterhead.

Woodworking rabbet. Effective tools and techniques abound. Rabbet planes fine rabbet planes available at highland woodworking since 1978. A recess or groove cut into the edge of a piece of machinable material usually wood. An example of the use of a rabbet is in a glazing bar where it makes provision for the insertion of the pane of glass and putty.

You can also think of it as an open sided dado that runs along the edge of a board rather than in the center of the stock. A rabbet is a right angle groove or notch cut into the edge of a board. The joint comes together neat and square. When viewed in cross section a rabbet is two sided and open to the edge or end.

You use a dovetail bit instead of a rabbet or straight bit. Overall rabbet joinery is simple to cut. We admit we rarely use a jointer to cut rabbets but if you must cut a perfectly smooth rabbet over 1 wide and along a straight outside edge look to a jointer. It s more resistant to racking than a conventional rabbet joint.

A rabbet is great for when a shelf needs to be placed flush with the top of the shelf standard vertical support piece or for recessing a plywood back on a cabinet. The dovetail rabbet joint is simple to make on the router table. Wikipedia defines a rabbet as. Wood joinery is one of the most basic concepts in woodworking if we didn t have the ability to join two pieces of wood together in a solid fashion all woodworking pieces would be sculptures carved out of a single piece of wood.