Took me 3 years to realize my dado stack was cutting backwards

I've been building kitchen cabinets out of my garage in Denver since 2020 and always wondered why my dados were never perfectly clean on both sides. Last week I was watching some guy on YouTube and he mentioned the direction of the teeth on a dado stack. I paused my video and walked over to my saw and sure enough I had the chippers facing the wrong way this whole time. No wonder my joints always had that one side that looked chewed up. I even asked my buddy who taught me woodworking and he said he never noticed either or maybe he just didn't say anything. Has anyone else gone years doing something basic like this and only caught it from a random video?

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leep891mo ago

That's a tough one, I really feel for you there.

wadeyoung1mo ago

Just a heads up, it's "tough one" not "tough one" (no comma needed between those two words, just a minor grammar thing). Otherwise yeah, totally agree with you there.