For anyone interested in purchasing a mortise and tenon jig, consider the Leigh FMT jig. I made the attached cabinet from oak scraps left over from a hotel restoration. I only had 3/4″ stock to work with and laminated all the legs and rails up. There are a total of 68 mortise and tenon joints in the frame alone, which has 14 legs; made easy by the FMT. I started woodworking about nine months ago and this is the most challenging project to date.
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That's a great piece for a relative newcomer. Bravo.
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I have been considering that very jig but was concerned about the max length of tenon board you can put under it. What is the max your setup will take?
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This is not about the Leigh FMT jig but the comment would still apply. Although the Leigh jig is a "cadillac" of jigs I have had the problem of length with my dovetail jig. I made a box to put on my bench to increase the height of the jig to accommodate longer boards and then a box to stand on so that I could reach it. Does anyone have other better solutions?
I wonder if one could make a stand to mount the jig vertically. Then the limit is the workshop size, assuming that you could line the boards up properly and work in that position.
I had the same idea and called Leigh to see if they had any solutions. I had the idea of mounting the jig at an angle but their opinion was that it would be unsafe to hold the router at any angle other than vertically. They consider holding the router horizontally to be unsafe. They suggested that if I had two floors that I could I put the jig on the first floor, secure it and then the board could be the height of the room below. I guess they did not consider the spacing of bannisters etc. However it did give me the idea of thestand and box.
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