Use your Leigh FMT to flip your mortises on their sides! Some joints, like dust dividers in a chest of drawers, require mortises to be routed at 90° to the clamp plate. The new Y-Axis mortise guide can produce six sizes of mortises: 1/4" x 3/8", 1/4" x 1/2", 1/4" x 3/4", 5/16" x 1/2", 5/16" x 3/4" and 1/2" x 1". Additional sizes can be routed using table limit stops and different bit sizes.
WARNING: Drilling, sawing, sanding or machining wood products can expose you to wood dust, a substance known to the State of California to cause cancer. Avoid inhaling wood dust or use a dust mask or other safeguards for personal protection. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov/wood.
Installing drawer dividers is a great way to improve the storage organization in your kitchen, workshop, or bathroom cabinets. You can purchase divider inserts, but you'll be limited to their design.
Cutting loose tenons is made much easier with tools designed to allow you to make those cuts from specialized jigs to biscuit joiners to mortise joiners. If you’ve ever used dowels to join wood,