re: Dado Stack in Europe?

Hi, George.

OK, maybe I was being a little cutesy with the cheap talk. I was using a Freud set in the US which I paid less than $100 for around 10 or 12 years ago. I bought it at the home despot even. 

Also, I watched the video. WOW - I never gave any of those safety concerns any thought whatsoever. Totally ignorant about it. That is some very good knowledge. I never ever used a blade guard. Fortunately I never had any issues.

Now for the meat and potatoes. I went to the link in the video: https://taytools.com/products/copy-of-cmt-orange-8-precision-dado-blade-set-12-teeth-ftg-atb-grind-0-125-kerf-230-012-08?_pos=3&_sid=e51388c83&_ss=r

He's selling it for a very reasonable $139. But with a 5/8 arbor hole. I looked on amazon.de and found a set with a 30mm arbor hole for almost $600 - more when tax and shipping is added. That is very UNreasonable. I suspect that is a very amazonian pricing strategy which I often saw in the US where something - anything - can be marked up by orders of magnitude because people either desperately need it or didn't see the ones with the real market price. Needless to say, I won't be making that mistake.

So thank you very much for the information. I do plan to go to the store that is selling the saw I'm looking at armed with my google translator and see if I can get these people to order it for me at a reasonable price. If not, there are a couple of places locally that sell tools that I can badger. Its really difficult to buy these kinds of things here because of the language barrier. My wife (a native) is useless in that regard because she's clueless with the technical jargon. That made renovating our house a lot of fun. :)