Hello,
I’m a long time FWW subscriber, but am new to this forum. I hope I am posting this in the right place.
Has anyony tried building the Slot Mortiser described in FWW#174(Winter 2004/2005) by Gregory Paolini? I’m thinking of building one and wonder what luck other people have had.
Thanks, Jerry
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Don't see why it wouldn't. I've seen a few patterned after the one in FWW #141 which used drawer slides and had a very simple way to adjust the router height. Very slick and accurate.
I made the horizontal router as described in a back Issue of Woodsmith. I use it for many things, one of which is mortises. I just push in and move the stock past the cutter by hand as described in the article. Spiral upcut bits. Besides mortises it is excellent for all types of applications such as tendon,sliding dovetails, triming edging flush with plywood. The best feature is that 99% of chips made get sucked up by the vac port. This really helps the spiral router bits I use for mortises run cooler. You don't re-cut the same chips over and over. Whenever I tried using a plunge router for mortises, I ruined the bits from too much heat.
The drawer slide slot mortiser stuff is over kill IMO. Just make up a scrap test jig to hold your router horizontal and give a a try before you build the Woodsmith plans. sorry, I don't know the Issue #.
Don
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