Thread: Anyone made a chisel morticer?

Jason, you can buy the mortiser to fit a drill press for about $100 from timbercon

The drill press ones are next to useless, a drill press is not designed for that kind of stress.

M&W, it probably could be done but not worth the effort unless your set up for heavy duty metal fabrication.

The motors are flange mounted to a heavy cast hollow form that encases the chuck and holds the chisel, also has the rack and pinion/dovetail guides. It would take some pretty fancy machine work to make it from a billet or even casting it yourself.
It tis a very simple machine but wouldn't be easy to make, be easier to make a router powered slot morticer, which will produce much cleaner and accurate mortices.

Fair call Harry, but if you go to M&W's other posts you'll see he's got at least 3.5 tonne of metalworking machinery that he's probably itching to use.

Mick

Originally Posted by metalnwood

Anyone bothered to do in to save, I reckon, 500 bucks?

Thanks,
Jason

I didn't bother about it, instead I bought a new one with two sets of chisels for less than half your estimated savings.


Peter.

hmm, I cant find one that cheap in NZ. The ntry level ones seem to start at about 570+gst for a benchtop model.

Jason