MakerSpace Leiden member Hans Delsink recently hosted a woodworking workshop on how to create tenons and mortises using power tools. Tenons and mortises are a common yet very effective way to create a solid mechanical joint between two pieces of wood.
Hans’s technique involves a router table and a mortiser, making this operation fast and repeatable. Both tools are available at MSL.
Although router tables are fairly common and can be used for a lot of different jobs, a mortiser’s sole purpose is to make square holes. Drilling a few of these next to each other creates a slot and voilà , a perfectly square mortise in a fraction of the time it would take with hand tools.
A big thanks to Hans for sharing his experience.