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Cut LED Channels in Wood

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Building My Kid's a Dream Gaming Desk

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What happens here

Channels are cut into the middle of the desk legs (which will be the outer face) and along the edges of both the main desktop and the monitor stand top. These channels are designed to house the LED light strips. A dado stack is used on the table saw to create these grooves. The dado stack consists of multiple blades and chippers to cut a wider, flat-bottomed channel. For stability and safety, a featherboard is used to keep the wood pressed firmly against the fence. Blue painter's tape is applied to the edges where cuts are made to minimize tear-out and ensure a cleaner cut. The depth of the channels matches the LED strip width, approximately half an inch.

Goal: Channels are cut into the edges of the desk top and legs to embed LED light strips, using a dado stack for clean grooves.

Tools and materials

  • Dado Stack
  • Featherboard
  • Hearing Protection
  • Push Stick/Block
  • Safety Glasses
  • Table Saw
  • Blue Painter's Tape

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lot of leds what i want to do is i want to carve a channel down the middle of because this is going to be the face and this is the other face middle of these legs and then i want to carve a channel along the edge of the table top itself and the edge of the monitor tabletop as well so it'll be kind of like this electron looking thing i'm going to use a dado stack and what a dado stack is is a bunch of assortment of blades you put together based off of this little cheat sheet of how thick you need it we're gonna go with half inch so this right here is called a feather board and what that does is it helps keep whatever you're feeding through up against the fence so it's not coming out when it comes out away from the fence it's not a good straight cut oh one more thing i just realized so as i proceed one corner there might be a tear out on the part that i'm coming out of maybe it'll happen maybe i'll now this is not the sharpest set of dado blades i have i'm gonna put tape around every edge that i'm going to do this on and they'll definitely give me a better chance to have a nice cleaner cut [Music]

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