893 days ago
by John Nixon |
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I recently had the pleasure of reviewing and making a video for the MLCS horizontal router table. In this video, I show how to make Mortises and Tenons easily on this machine. Also covered in the video is raised panels, crown molding and custom molding.
The machine is nice, and definitely as some advantages. Making raised panels or molding is similar to the action of using a jointer. You are passing the work over the bit with downward pressure. It feels much safer than standing it on it...
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148 days ago
by PurpLev |
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July, and it was pouring rain here in Boston, MA. for the past week. go figure. (although today it cleared out which is really nice). but enough about the weather (as if this will stop us).
After completing the basic construction for the leg ends last installment. It was now the time to connect those with rails. The rails are 45” long with 2 1/2” tenon sticking on each side (to a total length of 50” – do the math). They are made of 2 2×4 that were jointed/plane...
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406 days ago
by Blake |
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Here is a video about an easy way to make Tenons on a Radial Arm Saw. This is part of my “Opposing Arch Table” that I am currently working on. (Its 7.5 minutes long) Enjoy!
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534 days ago
by Blake |
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Time for the Mortise and tenons.
First of all, thanks to all who gave me advice about the mortising machine from the last blog. I did hone and tune the chisel and mortise machine and it did cut considerably better. I also turned the chisel so that the open side faces the previously bored section and didn’t have any trouble with chips getting stuck (thanks Betsy!)
So I made the layout lines on my legs:
And cut the mortises. Notice the stop block for repeatability:
I w...
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847 days ago
by Karson |
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OK Bob and I got together today to have a training class on Raised Panel construction.
See Bob blog on Mortise and Tenon - Help Needed
#1 We forgot to take pictures through the process.
#2 He forgot half of his wood at home.
#3 We couldn’t find enough pieces to make 1 full door so we looked through my Popular stash and found a 12” piece that would give him the required 9” piece.
#4 We cut my popular to get it to the correct size. Then we found a way to get it ...
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130 days ago
by PurpLev |
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finally getting to work on the actual bowling alley part of the “bowling alley workbench”, although I really found Damian’s comment on a previous installment entertaining, and might refer to it from now as the “Alley Workbench”...lol.
The top as can be seen in the sketchup model is made of 6 different components: Main Slab (nails and all), Dog holes strip, buffer strip, 2 skirts (front and back) and a breadboard End Cap.
In reality this will change slig...
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406 days ago
by Woodhacker |
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Some time ago I posted a blog about a dovetail joint I came up with. I call it the radial dovetail. It incorporates handcut dovetails, but rather than using the traditional 1:8 ratio for the dovetail angle for hardwood, each side of each tail varies and is drawn from a perspective point. Then the sides of the box were contoured to blend with the dovetail design.
Here’s a picture of the nearly completed box. It is made of curly maple, Carribean rosewood, and hickory.I like to think of t...
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495 days ago
by Eric |
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After I posted about doing my first hand-cut mortise and tenon, Scott wanted to see how I chopped my mortise. He said, “The only time I tried to chop a mortice I left most of a 1/4” chisel broken off in the wood.” Well, when I read that, I kind of freaked out because I hadn’t considered that I could have broken my blade! But I decided to trust in what I was taught, and to remember that I had, indeed, done one successfully. So I decided to keep at it for my second mortise.
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663 days ago
by Mike Lingenfelter |
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I had a few hours to work in the shop before the Super Bowl started. I was able to hog out all of the mortises. The router and drill press combination worked out really nice.
I had time to clean out the mortises in two of legs and fit one of the small stretches into the mortises.
So far the fit is working out pretty well. I still have a little more tweaking to do on some of the shoulders, but over all not too bad.
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854 days ago
by Karson |
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Time to turn my attention to the back. The locking mortise and tenon had been designed and it was now time to cut the mortises in the sides of the back. They were marked thru the holes in the sides and tape placed on the back to give the ends of the mortises. Using the horizontal router table.
A view from the side.
All of the wedge key tenons were made long so they are now being cut to the appropriate length minus 1/8” to allow for the back to move.
And cut the wedge tenons to the co...
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