Mortisers for All Budgets

摘要

In almost every professional woodworking shop, even the one-man operations, you'll find some kind of mortising machine. Making tight mortise-and-tenon joints is one of the most tedious parts of woodworking, and in the pro environment, time is money. But time is just as precious for me, a hobbyist woodworker with an expanding day job and shrinking leisure time. Like many pros, I've struggled with the usual mortising methods. Drilling and chopping is OK for a mortise or two, but it is tedious and easy to foul up. For multiple work-pieces, I turn to router jigs, but simple ones work for only one size of mortise, and more versatile jigs are complicated to build.