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RE: Mortising question - Papa Jim - 12-04-2018
[attachment=14818 Wrote:jteneyck pid='7694588' dateline='1543937235']A much easier way to go about it is to plow a 3/4" (or 1/2") wide dado where you want the mortises. Then when you install the slats glue 1" spacers between them. I usually make those spacers just slightly higher than the dado which avoids having to get them perfectly flush and also gives a nice shadow line. Here's a picture to show you what I'm talking about; it's for balcony balusters but is the same process.
John
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Oh! Work arounds are part of the fun of woodworking! Although I've never used your method I did something similar here. On the top photo the foot is split and the verticals are captured by dados. On the bottom I only dadoed the widest bottom piece, glued on a more narrower side piece and then a 3/8" cap. It takes a woodworker to figure out what I did! In my current project I really wanted to try out the mortising machine.
RE: Mortising question - joespehar - 12-04-2018
(12-03-2018, 09:54 PM)Papa Jim Wrote: . Instead of two plunges with a 3/4" I could do 4 with a 1/2" bit.
Papa Jim
I think two plunges with a 3/4 would give you a 1 1/2 inch mortise. Four plunges with a 1/2 would give you a 2 inch mortise. Don't you mean three plunges with a 1/2, or is there something here I don't understand?
RE: Mortising question - Stwood_ - 12-04-2018
(12-04-2018, 07:39 PM)joespehar Wrote: I think two plunges with a 3/4 would give you a 1 1/2 inch mortise. Four plunges with a 1/2 would give you a 2 inch mortise. Don't you mean three plunges with a 1/2, or is there something here I don't understand?
3/4"x1" holes, which would require two plunges with the 3/4 bit, even though the second plunge would not be a full 3/4x3/4 plunge.
RE: Mortising question - Papa Jim - 12-04-2018
(12-04-2018, 07:39 PM)joespehar Wrote: I think two plunges with a 3/4 would give you a 1 1/2 inch mortise. Four plunges with a 1/2 would give you a 2 inch mortise. Don't you mean three plunges with a 1/2, or is there something here I don't understand?
However many it takes to get a 3/4" x 1" hole. I knew I was going to have to overlap them.