Thread: Simple tenon jig

Thanks for this, just 2 days too late I ended up cutting mortices on 100x 42 mm meranti 2000mm long by setting up my tablesaw as shown here and using dado blades.

It was hard work on the arthritic thumbs and wrists rotating and sliding the heavy timber - moving a router instead would have been a lot easier.

I'm not one of the more knowledgeable folk but it looks good to me.

have you seen my hybrid pantorouter? it can cut tenon and mortise in few minutes.just it need effort to make.i used to have SFMT but only thing i did't like was i can's see my work piece and it can cut maximum 2inch tenon but with pantorouter you can cut 3inch even. but draw back of pantorouter is flying chips and difficult to catch but next month i will try to sort out this problem.hope i can do it

i've seen the pantorouter before and it looks pretty good, but the biggest thing for me is the room that it takes up as it's basically a standalone machine in itself, and I don't have much room at all.

Mate,

The SuperFMT is the only way to go.

I have had mine for a long time now, I was scared of the set up that I thought I was going to have to do.

I put my router onto it, put a piece of timber into it and cut a mortice. Then a second piece and cut a tenon. It was a little sloppy, so I made 1 slight adjustment and tried a second and it was perfect.

In no way am I saying your setup will be as easy, but once you have it you can do the same thing over and over.

FMT from Leigh all the way.

i do have super fmt jig,while i admit that super fmt is the best ever mortise and tenon jig as a portable and pantorouter design by matthias wandel has big draw back for setup template but i have temper design in mine hybrid pantorouter for easy and fast setup as you can see in the video but again i develop much faster design for template which can be much faster than super fmt just waiting for golden week so i can give my time to it.soon i will upload new demo video.

Looks great to me. I am planning to make one soon. I have cut a lot of m&t joints all by hand, then more recently table saw assisted and i'm tired of the time it takes.

One of these jigs (originally mentioned by Mr Big) is my way forward with a mortising chisel attachment set for the drill press. I might try and beef it up a bit and use 2 hold down clamps to replace the f-clamps for convenience and make the end stop adjustable maybe between 20-60mm for different length tennons.

It looks fundamentally accurate to build which I love about any jig.