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Revised Dado Tote

While Millicent Doyle’s dado tote (issue 268) is a traditional and simple design, I wanted something more expansive. With the dado tote you see here, each part of the dado set can be accessed individually without needing to unstack them.

The tote is made of three parts, along with the spacers for the blades. Tongues in the base slot into dadoes in the sides. The sides have two holes: one for a dowel to hold spacers and one for finger holes.

Pete Banning Mill Valley, CA

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  of was assembling the dresser you see above when he came

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