Cutting "perpendicular " mortices?

Re: Cutting "perpendicular " mortices?

Lee Schierer, McKean, PA

>Make an Auxillary table for your morticer with a cross cut guide slot like your table saw. Use your miter gage to guide the part.

Lee

Re: Cutting "perpendicular " mortices?

Kneale Brownson in Northern MI

>I put a small vise that has in/out and side-to-side movements in place of the rather imprecise fence/hold down system on my hollow chisel mortiser. It's a machinist's vise that has a flat top with T-slots. I can use threaded hold-downs, but I generally work out a way to clamp stuff to the top. I think I have about four inches of in/out and six inches of side to side movement.

X-Y Vise Make that Simple *LINK*

Mike Fitterling

>Here's a how-to article.


X-Y Article

good x-y vise?

Joe Piotrowski - Chicago Burb's

>that is a definite on the to-do list. who makes a good vise. not too expensive but of a good quality?

spacer blocks

Robin Corell, Atascadero CA

>Set the fence for the furthest point and then use spacer boards the with of the chisel you are using to put the board in the correct position for the first cut. then it is just a matter of removing one spacer at a time and making cuts untill the board is aginst the fence for the final cut. The advantage of this tecnique over a cross slide vise is that it is just a matter of replacing all the spacers to reset for the next part to be mortised. Of couse using a stop block for the length goes without saying.

Robin Corell

Re: good x-y vise?

Mike Fitterling

>I got my vise from Grizzly. I have the 4" vise. Later I bought another one for my drill press, this time from Harbor Freight; I cannot tell the difference between the two. Both work the same and are adjustable for finetuning the movement. A vise will run you about $45.

thanks

Joe Piotrowski - Chicago Burb's

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