A kitchen cart glued together using mortise & loose(floating) tenon joinery. Tenons are 1/4" oak. Building a 2nd cart and my mortising process is featured. Used the router table and a drill press hollow mortising chisel attachement to mill them - stile mortises at the router table are dangerous and kickback will result if not holding the stock firmly enough. The hollow mortising chisel is most safe for for stile mortises. Removed most of the material on oak using a highspeed bit in a hand drill; oak puts much stress on a hollow chisel mortise bit!
Oak or another similar hardwood will wear out any mortiser quickly - This method will extend the life of your mortise chisel & bit
TomH127 3 years ago
why would you use the drill to "save your mortiser"? We need to save our elbows!
eagledraw 3 years ago