Designing my own mortise Jig...
I know there are hundreds of different mortise jigs about between home made and shop built but I dont like any of them.
The good ones (Leigh FMT and a few others like Mortise Pal) are too expensive and the shop built ones seem either too fiddly to make or too fiddly to use or too limiting in their use.
I've come up with an initial design for a mortise jig that works on table-saw mounted routers using the table-saw fence. I figured this method will be quick and square and safe.
I'm designing wit loose tenon joinery in mind and my project at the moment is a loft bed that needs 4x3 Blackbutt M&T joined to 4x4 blackbutt for the main frame and then there are millions of slats to be mortised into the rails
SO
I want to be able to safely support 1.3m 4x4 hardwood posts on their ends and mortise them and be able to make smaller mortises for the 42x19 slats all using the one jig.
I'll post my sketches and details in the next post as this one is getting too busy.