devonwoody
Established Member
Yesterday afternoon I went out to my workshop (garage) and produced 16 mortices just over the hour using an home made jig.
The setup involves clamping down stop blocks to prevent the router running past the marked up area. This involved removing s stop block between top mortice on a post and the bottom joint.
Today I produced 16 mortices in 20 minutes, I did the top joints first and kept the stop blocks fixed. When the turn came to do the bottom joints on the posts I turned the timber round and reset stop blocks.
This saved nearly 50 minutes of set up time over the 4 posts.
I still reckon a rat or other device is unnecessary to produce these joints.
The setup involves clamping down stop blocks to prevent the router running past the marked up area. This involved removing s stop block between top mortice on a post and the bottom joint.
Today I produced 16 mortices in 20 minutes, I did the top joints first and kept the stop blocks fixed. When the turn came to do the bottom joints on the posts I turned the timber round and reset stop blocks.
This saved nearly 50 minutes of set up time over the 4 posts.
I still reckon a rat or other device is unnecessary to produce these joints.