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So I will be embarking on a mission to make a set of benches and chairs to match my dining room table that I finished in the summer of '16. As i learned with the legs on my table, drilling and chiseling mortises on a leg that beefy using traditional methods really sucks, especially with hard maple. So I decided to utilize the Domino to do a bulk of the work, and made this fixture for repeatable cuts.
My legs are squared up, placed into one side, and the marks are transferred to both the top and bottom using a combination square. I make cuts on the top and bottom of the right side (pic r), then flip it over to make cuts on the top and bottom of the left side (pic 5). The results are overlapped cuts, and a perfectly centered mortise. After that, there is still some chisel work, but considerably less chisel work than if done using traditional method with a drill press.
Here is the end result:
Thanks for looking, any comments welcome & questions responded to.
My legs are squared up, placed into one side, and the marks are transferred to both the top and bottom using a combination square. I make cuts on the top and bottom of the right side (pic r), then flip it over to make cuts on the top and bottom of the left side (pic 5). The results are overlapped cuts, and a perfectly centered mortise. After that, there is still some chisel work, but considerably less chisel work than if done using traditional method with a drill press.
Here is the end result:
Thanks for looking, any comments welcome & questions responded to.