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

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.