dancrave

you wanna see a dangerous way to quickly cut a tenon? check out page 188 of Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking/Joinery. he sets his rip fence to the shoulder width and runs a board upright over a tall blade (basically like you would do it with a tenon jig, but without the jig.) That method has to 10 times more dangerous than the one shown here. For Tage it's totally safe, me, I'd never try it.

I 'discovered' this method several years ago and have used it without incident. I use a full cross cut sled with a stop block clamped to the back rail, this feels safer to me than the miter gauge/rip fence combo shown in the video. Also cutting away waste with successive cross cut before the lateral cut probably makes this operation safer.

Some other commenters mention that this method creates a inherently scalloped surface on the tenon face. I've been curious about this too so i did the math. Given a 10" blade and 1/4" offset between the lateral clean-up cuts, the maximum deviation from flat on the tenon face would 1/640" or .0015625. That's flat enough for me.

I'm not sure what a jointer or a planer does (or even what a dvd is,) but man I hope i win!

by the way, what is a giveaway?