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I always liked slot morticers tbh. Accurate and simple to use. My axi planer was a prototype having features not present on production machines. Bolts for a slot mirticer was one. Table extension tapped holes another. Are those fancy drills still available as clico are defunct.

Startrite imported robland machines for a spell. These are Belgium made hence french.

If only the world was as simple and formulaic! But I do find if I place something a pleasing distance from 2 things it often is around this number anyway.... try it.

On a smaller level I have some in a set that run on a drill press. Good introduction but beall used to make a wood polishing set

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Ps my 3/4 freud forstner has drilled thousands of through holes in hardwood making a product I sell. It's much harder to drill a clean through hole in softwood imho.

I've had freud imperial ones for decades and we're not expensive these are neither sawtooth or wave and drill well in cross and long grain. There also are easy to sharpen. The aldi lidl ones are not as good but still usable (being soft and roughly made) some of the expensive drills are eye...

I like Derek's tenon jig but like my leigh fmt it struggles with decent depth tenons(my fmt struggles at 35mm and is more comfy at 25mm.) Using a top notch razor sharp saw is a prerequisite thus ruling out many shade tree woodies. Door through tenons are nearly always over four inch and...

It was always an issue as a garage woodworker. I always felt those methods ie single blade width move across again very slow and a bit dangerous as they are so repetitive and slow. Derek's router plane suggestion is a good one as longer tenons need to be parallel to work. And router planes work...

It's better to centralise your mortices if using this method and focusing on straight square timber that's equal thickness/width. So either work from both faces with mortice and tenon(or groove and stub tenon by turning between cuts) or work mortice and tenon from one face only(morticer and...

Americans (and myself before a multico) use a dado and a mitre fence on the table saw. I still do some aspects this way occasionally. It works and isn't to slow. If your using a morticer watch as your mortices may be slightly off centre (morticer uses a single datum fence) have set up waste the...

I knew someone had made some horsey gear. Shame it didn't work though. It's true that a single product isn't so economical to market so shops who already have a presence can be better albeit at a cost.

It's not information and knowledge that's lacking using the Internet. It's solid practical execution relentless and a bit boring. Repetition, over and over. The stuff that no one would ever click on or aspire to. Make a thousand mortice and tenons every variation then start again. Then what...

My initial reaction to that glazing rebate was oooo that's complicated. But after the joints made simply send it through the spindle...job done.

Strikes me the showcase joint also reveals the way mitres can bring even the hidden glazing rebates seamlessly together . Any joiner knows the faff of stepped and scribed shoulders to acheive this.

Here's a really typical application

Strangely chinese furniture design is mostly standardised.the form being established many hundreds of years ago. These forms are often complex but like sash windows are so well established it's only someone whose seeing it for the first time who thinks " who dreamt that up"

The showcase joint has rebates for glazing as well by the look of it.

I believe there first use was in the ming dynasty but the ideas it works with are basically the same albeit with a few alternate methods to joint it. It's use in Chinese furniture is universal and still common now. The reason being its possible to round all the surfaces within the depth of the...

Craft items are flooded and underpriced. But it's possible to make money with a well marketed unique product. Well marketed is the key phrase. Any chopping board is very hard to separate out from the pack. I make a product that no one makes at all. Does it sell well? Not really! It could given...