Cutting A Groove In Floor Boards

Cut the wedge from a scrap of flooring with the groove left on.

Cutting a groove in floor boards.

Both the tongue and groove is passed through just once and gives it a beautiful and strong factory like fit. In an ideal world without these restrictions the best method in cutting tongue and groove joints for floor panels is through the shaper. The cuts made when creating the two mating workpieces of a tongue and groove joint are non through cuts meaning that the saw blade never goes all the way through the wood. Drive the wedge between the flooring board and a scrap board screwed to the subfloor.

Not only will the shaper be able to handle the quantity of boards setting it up is simple. Every woodworker should be familiar with cutting them on the table saw. Hello folks i was wondering if i could get some tips from you all for cutting up tongue and groove chipboard flooring because today when the joiner took up a section off the floor there was pipes very very close to the tops of the joists and right underneath the flooring. If you don t have the budget for those bits a simple straight flute bit can be used to cut a tongue and groove joint.

Cut badly bowed boards into shorter lengths. The same bit can be used to cut both pieces of the joint.