Sliding Dovetails Make Shelves In Minutes

A real pain by hand, impossible on a router table, the 'Rat makes this essential joint with ease and with absolutely no breakout. This means you can make incredibly strong shelves in no time. You can even put legs on tables.

The housing (dado) is cut with the workpiece clamped under and across the Plate. To cut the tenon, the wood is tracked through the cutter, held in the Cam Clamp.

Dado (Housing) Joints can also be made in this way, but Sliding Dovetails are much stronger and just as simple to make.

“Well made, versatile & easy to master”

Woodworkers Journal

“I've had my WoodRat set up now for about two weeks, the machine is simply amazing. The joinery process in our shop has been cut by half.”

Liam Martin of M&M Carpentry (Customer)