 Samurai Carpenter router jig for cutting mortise and tenons a three minute overview. Hola woodworkers, Paul Carlson here, small workshop guy. I ran across a video by the Samurai Carpenter where he took a simple 12 by 12 3 eighths inch thick piece of polycarbonate and he created a very stable base for his plunge router and then put a series of holes around the edge that allowed him to attach fences so that it became a very stable mortise and tenon cutting aid so that's what I'm going to build today. Use a straight edge from the corners to find the center then mark a circle around that use some sort of device then show where the base screws are for the using a drill press with the circle saw to cut out the center hole that worked really well. Drill with a countersink bit from the bottom side of your plastic sheet where you need to attach the router. You might want to do those part way through the Forstner bit, small one and then a hole larger than the screws you're going to use so that you can center your base when you need to. Then countersink from the opposite side in this case the top side screws every three quarters of an inch around the entire edge of the base and this is what it looks like when you're finished. I have a link to Jesse's or to the Samurai Carpenters video in my description and you can see him demonstrate using his jig to set it up to cut a mortise and then a tenon a through tenon and very very educational. Thank you Jesse for a great idea. As far as the polycarbonate sheet I got mine on the Amazon DeliberJesse store on its website click on anything that takes you to Amazon to make sheet transparent small parts small workshop guy signing off and do me a favor give me a like a comment and a subscribe thank