Router Mortising Jig?

[Keefaz]

Hi, all.

I'm trying to knock up a few more of these for the missus and I think I need to speed things up a bit. The main thing that slowed me down the first time was chopping out the mortises by hand. I want to use the router in order to speed things up, but I'm not really sure how to do it without the router slipping off the edge and drilling through my workbench?

Does anyone have a jig for such a thing? Or just some advice?

Thanks,

Keith.

 

[RogerS]

Keith

Pictures seem to have gone AWOL

:wink: Roger

EDIT: OK now

 

[mailee]

You could try placing them side by side and clamping them together then routing them using the side fence that comes with your router. Alternatively how about making a right angled plate out of some scrap and clamping it to the side. Just a suggestion but maybe someone has a jig they have made for this.

 

[Paul Chapman]

Keith,

An alternative to making up a jig is to use two fences (one each side) on your router. This would make the router very stable and stop it slipping off the workpiece. If you add some wooden faces to your fences and rub them with a candle, this would help them to run smoothly along the wood - some of the plastic faces supplied with router fences are sometimes a bit rough and not very well made.

Paul

 

[Alf]

Could have sworn we had an old thread where folks were encouraged to post their jig pics, but can I find it? Anyway, here's what I use, a Roy Sutton design. Hopefully self-explanatory; the work has to be shimmed up level with the top of the jig btw, but that's not exactly difficult.

Cheers, Alf

 

[Anonymous]

Nice jig Alf :shock:

Keefaz, A lot of people just use two router fences, one either side of the job - I used to do this until I got a dedicated morticer and it works very well.

 

[Steve Maskery]

If your vice will take it, this is the way I've done it for years
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steve.mask ... ce_jig.htm

Cheers
Steve

 

[Alf]

Nice jig Alf :shock:

Coo, it's like Leonardo Da Vinci looking over my shoulder and saying "Nice cartoon" :shock: :lol:

Cheers, Alf

 

[gidon]

Not as fancy as Alf or Steve's but handy when using the morticer is tricky:

Nicked the design from somewhere but can't remember where ...

Cheers

Gidon

 

[Nick W]

Nicked the design from somewhere but can't remember where ...

Chairmaking & Design by Jeff Miller perhaps?

 

[George_N]

I have found mortising easier on the router table. Set the bit height and fence for mortise depth and position and a piece of masking tape stuck to the table top to indicate where the bit starts and stops. The workpiece is then plunged onto the bit and moved between the index marks on the masking tape...not much help if you don't have a table for your router though, I suppose.