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Building my first Morris Chair #4: Squaring up the through mortises and mortise cam.

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Blog entry by John posted 1507 days ago 1920 reads 1 time favorited 3 comments Add to Favorites Watch
« Part 3: Cutting a mortise in a leg Part 4 of Building my first Morris Chair series Part 5: Starting work on the chair back »

Hello LJ’s,

Got to spend a little time in the shop yesterday. I finished routing out all the mortises and squared up the through mortises. I have a block of maple laying around that I use as a guide for square chiseling. I ran the maple block over the jointer to get a 90 degree corner and clamped it to the work piece.


I used the side walls of the mortise to register the chisel and rotated the chisel handle up to score the face of work.


Next I chiseled straight down using the maple block as a guide.

Mortise cam.


That funky music in the background is a live recording of Medeski, Martin and Wood.

-- Brain the size of a planet and they have me parking cars.





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a1Jim

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#1 posted 1507 days ago

Good demo. that’s funky alright

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

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bigjim64

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#2 posted 1507 days ago

that music woke my dog up and ran over to see what was going on, lol nice video

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davidroberts

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#3 posted 1506 days ago

No need to apologize for the music (ggg). You ought to hear what I listen to.

-- david roberts, spinning Tales from Topographic Oceans, no, really.

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