My Mortise Jig

looks like it works good , monty .
you made the tenon on it too , right ?

i am very impressed by all the upgrades ,
i see here in LJs ,
this site is a real confidence builder .

also by making your own tooling ,
it helps to understand the posabilitys better .

well done !

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

Thanks patron for your wonderful comments again. If it wasn’t for the great people on this site like you i probaly would not post my projects. I am all ways trying to build my skills in woodworking and i have only done a few mortise and tennon joints and i wanted to figure out a easer way to make a mortise that why i made the jig.

-- Monty Q, Columbia, South Carolina.

Nice mortising jig.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

Nice looking jig. I need to get me some way to cut a mortise, That`s what I may do after this box fling.

-- Mike, Bruce Mississippi = Jack of many trades master of none

Great job. I do like the looks of yours. Would you mind giving more info or the yuotube site?

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

Looks good Monty

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon, custom furniture,woodworking school,heirloomwoodshop.com

The youtube site is (Router mortise Jig). Just go into youtube and put in that and you should be able to find it. This man has 3 videos. One on how he built it and two on he he uses it. I hope this help you. Once it is built it is very easy to make mortises. Thanks.

-- Monty Q, Columbia, South Carolina.

I like this jig. I watched the Youtube videos and this is far easier than my set up. Now to build one. Thanks for sharing your work.

-- Doug, Cass City, Michigan

i have the same router! that old bugger!

anyway, nice jig. i just made a mortising/loose tenon jig myself. slightly different design from yours, but the idea is the same. clever wooden clamp design on the face too!

i’m wondering, what is that 4th picture showing? the one with the two pipe clamps (is that a twin-screw pipe clamp vise you made?)?

also, how do you make sure you route to your markers? just by feel/sight, or do you use stops?

AaronK : Ther first question you ask,(is that a twin-screw pipe clamp vise you made?) Yes it is, I made a wooden vice system using two pipe clamps and two pieces of oak wood, it works real well. The outher question you ask is how you route to your markers. First i find my distance and mark it. Then i take a drill bit the same size of the mortise i am going to use, then i drill two holes one on each side and it use them for my stops, and i will not route past those holes. Then i route in between those two hole and thats how i get my mortise. I plunge route in one hole and take it to the other not going past the other one. I hope that explain it for you.

-- Monty Q, Columbia, South Carolina.

hey monty,

thanks. that vise is sweet. i was thinking of doing one like that for myself. how long are the pipes that you use? I guess they could theoretically be any length, huh? that way you could clamp anything.

i kind of like this system a bit more than the one i made. The key thing about it is using a track that the router base rides on/in to assure a straight-line route. With mine I’m going to have to use a double-edge guide… which isnt necessarily a bad thing, i guess.