Mortise and tenons are often the backbone of a woodworking project. Template can also be used for accurate doweling applications. Mortise and tenon wood joinery is one of the most common ways of making woodworking jonts in quality furniture, timber framing and other forms of woodworking. First mark the workpiece to indicate the centerline for the mortise and the ends where the tenon shoulder fits. This thing takes the inexperience out of the equation. Fully adjustable for compound angle joints up to 45 degree. Templates can be used for accurate dowelling applications. How to make mortise and tenon joints with hand tools wood. The unit can easily handle stock ranging from 12 to 112 thick and can cut multiple mortises in a single. Incra buildit sts mortiser manual page 1 loose tenon joinery on the other hand provides all of the strength benefits without the tedious setups. This jig was purchased on amazon and i plan on incorporating it into my shop as my goto. The included setup bar makes adjustments quick and easy.
This shop made mortising jig was originally designed by philip morley. Additionally we demonstrate a loosetenon joinery technique, a joinery method featuring a piece of woodthe tenoninserted into matching mortises. Hollow chisel mortise drill tool gonna make your handyman life so. This table saw tenon jig is a good example of what we mean. Utilizes the fence as the main guide to allow simple and quick tenons to be made. This jig is easy to make, easy to use and is the perfect diy tool to make clean, precise and repeatable mortises every time. At work my boss has got a festool domino machine, and if i had the money i would buy one, very quick and easy to set up and.
Reversible templates to produce round and square end tenons. As long as you follow directions you will make some very nice joints. Jun 08, 2015 new youtube video making the mortise and tenon. I feel that i have more control of production with this joint, i can come up with a better fitting joint and i have more options for anchoring the neck to the guitar body. Leigh mortise and tenon jig canadian woodworking magazine. Building a toy box plans to help you out in picking your first official diy or woodworking project, we have listed top woodworking projects for beginners you can choose woodworking projects that sell here are best 23 building a toy box plans for beginners and advanced building a toy box.
It would be nice to also catalog the various ways of making mortise and tenon joints using power tools. I dont have a hollow chisel mortiser yet so i make them by hand. An adjustable template is used with the trend mortise and tenon jig. I wasnt sure witch way to approach the mortises, by hand, with a mortising machine, or with a router. Unfollow mortise and tenon to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. T he mortiseandtenon joint is fundamental in woodworking. These jigs help you hand cut flawless mortise and tenon joints. The five most common sizes of mortise and tenon joints 14inch to 58inch are.
Great beginner woodworking projects that will get you comfortable with the basics of building with wood. The plan is available for download in the store for a small fee. I made the attached cabinet from oak scraps left over from a hotel restoration. Instruct how to construct antiophthalmic factor versatile jig to cut mortises in three slipway using type a router. When cutting such a joint, the mortise and tenon jig is used to steady the tool being used, and to guide the tool so that a straight cut can be made in accordance with the cuts necessary to complete the joint. Unfollow mortise and tenon jig to stop getting updates on your ebay feed.
In loose tenon joinery all of the pieces to be joined receive an identical mortise, while the tenon itself is simply a short cutoff from a long piece of stock, thickness planed, ripped and rounded. Save mortise and tenon jig to get email alerts and updates on your ebay feed. The jigs is made of precision cut steel plates and body. You can set the length of the mortise by adjusting the position of the door clamps clamps act as carriage dead stops so you will cut the exact length mortise every time. As part of my current project i have to do mortise and tenon joinery. Know more now we stopped at the general booth at the 2011 national hardware show to take a look at the mortise and tenon. Now you can create mortise and tenon joints with ease and consistency by using this jig and your router. Make a mortising jig for the router mortise and tenon. Mortise and tenon jig plans pdf plans how to building. Apr 16, 2016 throughmortiseandtenon joints are the strongest, but if you cant or choose not to go clear through, twothirds the width of the mortised piece is a reasonable target. I love them for their strength, but also because, in my experience, its seems to be easier to get a. Trends mortise and tenon jig enables mortise and tenons and dowel joints to be cut with a router. Wherever a jig is required for safety or quality of fit, please also include a photo or link to the type of jig mentioned.
A first opening through the template is spaced inwardly a predetermined distance from one of the side margins and is centered on a line running between those side margins inwardly from the front margin. If you judge by the number of devices and methods developed to avoid making mortises, you might think. Sketchup drawings of the jig pdf drawings png drawings to view the 3d sketchup drawings, you can download sketchup, which is a free program. It was a very simple jig, knocked together from scrap plywood, which allowed him to rout mortises of any length, any width, up to 3 deep depending on the bit in use, in virtually any workpiece that might come to hand. The bigthinking folks at leigh jigs just couldnt stop at making the best, most accurate dovetail jigs money can buy. Each user guide is also available as a downloadable pdf. Apr 05, 2017 as part of my current project i have to do mortise and tenon joinery. Leigh frame mortise and tenon jig mortise and tenon trickery the leigh easy way. Mortise jig for floating tenons by wayofwood thingiverse. A little sibling to the industrially machined aluminum leigh pro fmt, this less expensive model is made out of 10 and 12 gauge bent and bolted steel.
General tools mortise and tenon jig woodworking furniture cut joint hand tool. The mortise is this hole in which the tenon is inserted, and often glued or pinned, that go together to make the woodworking joint. Master woodworker george vondriska provides stepbystep instruction on how to use an fmt frame mortise and tenon jig to cut mortise and tenon joinery for your woodworking projects. Understand more ive been searching the lucre and this meeting place atomic number 49 an attempt to incur plans for making a mortice and tenon jig. There are many versions of the joint and equally many different ways of cutting it. The fully assembled jig includes everything you need to use your plunge router to add the strength of 14 mortiseandtenon joints to cabinet and furniture projects. But not until now did someone figure out a way to provide a quick and easy.
If youre not already using mortise and tenon joinery in everything you build, this amazing jig from leigh industries might well change the way you do woodworking, just because its so interesting to use. This article originally appeared in the february 2014 issue of popular woodworking magazine as 4 way to make a mortise. I love them for their strength, but also because, in my experience, its seems to be easier to get a mortise and tenon joint precise than it is with dowels. This above video and article will simplify the process of cutting mortise and tenon joints with only a few traditional hand tools. Mortise and tenon jig plans pdf plans how to build.
In this video ill show how to build a mortise jig for your router, to be used with mortise and tenon joints. A c or f clamp will work just as well, but it will slow things down. Mortise and tenon joints are a mainstay of woodworking and there are several types of jigs to create this popular joint. Jig simplifies mortise and tenon joinery woodworking network. I only had 34 stock to work with and laminated all the legs and rails up. Trend have now introduced a jig that cuts both mortise and tenon. This clever router jig is selfcentering for perfectly placed mortises. One setup for both mortise and tenon giving perfectly fitting joints. By jeff miller mortise and tenon joints tend to frustrate woodworkers far more than dovetails do. But not until now did someone figure out a way to provide a quick and easy, allinone solution to cut both a matching mortise and tenon with a single inexpensive jig. The best mortise and tenon tools for your project popular.
Digital plans of tenon jig to table saw this listing includes three zip file which contains. Square hole drill cannot be used on an electric drill, drill square holes need to fit a square hole drill drilling mortise and tenon machine to use. This is a quick and easy way to make a precision joint. I would make a reference block and as you get guides make a mortise and tenon and mark it with guide size and bit size. Portercable dovetail jig with mini template kit 4216 4.
Quick, accurate and versatile jig allows you to cut perfectfitting mortise and tenons with a plunge router requires only one setup to cut both pieces. Paul has developed his own system for cutting mortise and tenon joints using a conventional hand router plane to create perfectly sized mortise and tenons that are accurately aligned. All of them are hefty with cast iron bases, but the grizzly h7583 is superior in its ability to be adjusted. There are a total of 68 mortise and tenon joints in the frame alone, which has 14 legs. You have to open this print in the customizer to fit it to your router and material.
The jig comes completely assembled and is ready to use right outofthebox to produce the widely used 14 mortise and tenon joint. With mortises larger than that, i find i have better control by plunging the bit into the work with a plunge router rather than plunging the work onto the bit. For anyone interested in purchasing a mortise and tenon jig, consider the leigh fmt jig. A woodworkers guild of america wwgoa original video. There is already a question about making mortise and tenon joints using hand tools. Lee valley in their newest catalogue feature a router based mortise and tenon jig made by leigh, the same people who make the infamous dovetail jig. A mortise and tenon jig is an apparatus used to guide a cutting tool when making a mortise and tenon joint. This mortising technique calls for routing a slot in 1. The mortise and tenon joint is my joint of choice for an acoustic guitar neck or a ukulele neck. Most leigh user guides are in a larger format now, with the same content, high quality images and detailed text, as the previous guides. Umpteen years ago our favorite great dane invented a mortising jig for use with his favorite plunge router. In addition to a plunge router, youll need a sharp bit we recommend upcut spiral bits and either an edge guide or jig to keep the router bit within the layout lines.
Using a plunge router with the jig, woodworkers can quickly and easily cut both mortises and tenons ranging from 14 to 12 thick and from 1 to 3 wide. Self centering spindle so your mortise is always centered on the door,no adjustment required you will never cut through the side of a door again. The router is one of the most useful tools in your woodworking shop, and just a few bits will allow to embellish your projects. The morley mortiser diy mortising jig plans and videos. This versatile, traditional joint has always been associated with high quality cabinets and furniture, and continues to be popular because of its inherent strength.
The mortise and tenon joint is a staple of woodworking. Because of its inherent strength, the mortise and tenon joint is a very popular joint for a multitude of woodworking projects. Drill press, router, dado blade, tenon jig, and dedicated hollow chisel mortisers, this article explains the pros and cons of each method. A lot of furniture i build utilizes mortise and tenon joints. A patterning jig for use with a router has a flat template with spaceopposed side margins joined by respective front and rear margins. Umpteen years ago our favorite great dane invented a mortising jig for. It is used to create floating tenon joints between two pieces of. Find the top mortise and tenon jigs with the msn buying guides compare products and brands by quality, popularity and pricing updated april 2020. The jig is composed of a base with a clamping plate and is mounted to a workbench.
Unfollow tenon and mortise jig to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. That leaves the length of the mortise, or the width of the tenon to be determined. Apr 25, 2015 price clearly isnt everything when it comes to the best table saw tenoning jig. An instructional dvd is included with every leigh fmt pro jig. In this video, wood magazines jim heavey shows you how to use a router table and some useful accessories for make a router table safer and more versatile. The router is mounted to a guide plate and runs in guideways on the top surface of the jig to cut the.
New youtube video making the mortise and tenon paul. In our case, the cheapest jig turned out to be the best one out there. Just as strong as a joint made with integral tenons, loosetenon joinery trumps traditional mortiseandtenon construction in several ways. Along with the dovetail, this joint has been used for thousands of years. Normally id make the tenons using my pantorouter, or my quickset tenon jig shown at right, but to show that you dont need a whole workshop full of tools, ill do this with more basic tools. The jig that took us five years to develop takes you only five minutes to understand well enough produce a perfect mortise and tenon joint. Im going to cut the tenons using my table saw sled, with a plywood box on it.
I hope you enjoy this one on making the mortise and tenon. Mortise and tenon joinery is a traditional way of attaching wood together for strong woodworking joints but creating a mortise and making it the correct size and position is harder than it looks. The leigh fmt mortise and tenon jig is super fast at milling mortise and tenon joints. The easiest mortiseandtenon joint ever wood magazine. Tool experts wood joining tools mortise and tenon jig. This video shows the construction of an easy to build tenon jig. Ready to use right out of the box to produce 14 mortise and tenon joints for cabinets, furniture and frames. This looks like one that is versatile and will last. Building a custom jig with the size and orientation of the joints is fine if you only need a single size and shape. And with the power tools available today there are several ways of creating both the mortise and the tenon. Trend mortise and tenon jig canadian woodworking magazine. The addition of a router table opens op even more possibility for making joints and more.
At a cost which is less than a third of its nearest serious competitor, the fmt is clearly the best value on the market today. The tenon will be strongest the closer it is to the size of the piece on which it is made. You can make precise tenons as long as the maximum depth of cut of your saw, and there are prob. With a little practice, you should be able to make a mortise and tenon joint in under 10 minutes. There are many ways of cutting mortises, such as mallet and chisel, mortising machines. When you only need to make a few mortise and tenon joints, cutting them by hand is the way to go. This step will help you guide the router bit for setting the left and right. With the frame mortise and tenon family of jigs and a plunge router, every woodworker can easily produce this incredible joint with unmatched accuracy and speed. I am about to start a small dresser for my girlfriend and i know i want to try mortise and tenon joints for the first time.
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