Thanks: 0
Likes: 0
Needs Pictures: 0
Picture(s) thanks: 0
Results 1 to 7 of 7
Thread: Cutting mortise into corner
-
21st May 2020, 12:49 PM #1GOLD MEMBER
- Join Date
- May 2009
- Location
- melb
- Posts
- 1,125
Cutting mortise into corner
If you had a table leg which is square and you wanted to cuta through mortise into the corner how would you do it? So the rail runs diagonallyunder the table
-
21st May 2020 12:49 PM # ADSGoogle Adsense Advertisement
- Join Date
- Always
- Location
- Advertising world
- Posts
- Many
-
21st May 2020, 01:13 PM #2
Not something I have tried but this gives the general idea.
YouTube
A round peg save a lot of work.
Regards
John
-
21st May 2020, 02:59 PM #3
Build a cradle that holds the legs so the edge is point up then use a router to cut out a mortice on the edge.
Screen Shot 2020-05-21 at 1.58.24 pm.png
-
21st May 2020, 03:46 PM #4GOLD MEMBER
- Join Date
- Jul 2011
- Location
- In between houses
- Posts
- 1,784
^^^what he said
-
21st May 2020, 04:41 PM #5China
- Join Date
- Dec 2005
- Location
- South Australia
- Posts
- 4,470
Is this what you are looking for YouTube
-
24th May 2020, 10:41 AM #6GOLD MEMBER
- Join Date
- May 2009
- Location
- melb
- Posts
- 1,125
-
24th May 2020, 03:47 PM #7
Its a very well proven technique - been around since Adam was a pup. Variations are to use it on a drill press and then trim with a chisel, use it on a chisel mortiser, use it upside down on a router table, etc.
But the 45 degree mortices as shown are only appropriate for square tables. If the table is oblong then that angle will vary.
I find that a spiral downcut bit gives a slightly cleaner entry hole and a spiral upcut bit gives a slightly cleaner exit hole. But none of my spiral bits are long enough to go diagonally through a table leg, so I am unable to comment on a diagonal exit hole. But why would you want to go right through the leg?
Similar Threads
-
N.S.W. Colen Clenton Screw Mortise Cutting Gauge for $530 - UNUSED
By FenceFurniture in forum WOODWORK - Tools & MachineryReplies: 5Last Post: 5th December 2018, 02:31 PM -
Corner cutting Tool?
By WillyInBris in forum CNC MachinesReplies: 3Last Post: 30th October 2008, 11:05 AM -
Mortise cutting jig – the lazy bugger version
By Wongo in forum HOMEMADE TOOLS AND JIGS ETC.Replies: 5Last Post: 2nd April 2006, 07:30 AM