Cutting A Groove In Floor Boards

The tongue and groove is one of the most basic and useful joints.

Cutting a groove in floor boards. Use a straight flute bit to cut the joint optional specialty tongue and groove bits make easy work of creating the joints but they can be a bit expensive. 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. Drive the wedge between the flooring board and a scrap board screwed to the subfloor. Every woodworker should be familiar with cutting them on the table saw.

Cut the wedge from a scrap of flooring with the groove left on. Wedge the boards together if necessary to straighten bowed boards. Cut badly bowed boards into shorter lengths. Not only will the shaper be able to handle the quantity of boards setting it up is simple.

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. The same bit can be used to cut both pieces of the joint.