Make Your Own Mortising Jig | The Morley Mortiser

hey guys how's it going today I'm going to do a short video talking about the morning mortiser so the ideas mortiser is I'm going to offer you guys plans which you can go to philip morning furniture comm and get yourself some and hopefully this video will help you along as you build your very own so we're going to do a quick rundown on the parts how it works and a little demo it's pretty simple it works with a 5/8 guide bushing in the top here this top moves back and forth like so to position the mortise in your in your piece it's also got some stops some limiters on the side and I'll talk about how I like to set it up with a using a shim technique to get you reliable and repeatable setup and this red hair makes it pretty awesome I've built this jig several times and until these guys came around I had a lot of difficulty with clamping the workpiece so your piece simply clamps to the front use these match fit micro jig clamps and clamp the piece down works pretty awesome let's get into it okay so here's basically what the jigs made up out of it's all free quarter-inch plywood it's it's a really simple construction but like with anything for it to work well it's got to be made very accurately so if things come out square but you got yourself your top that goes on a couple of runners so it's just being free quarter-inch groove 3/8 inch deep that rides on a couple of runners on the soft top you've got your bolts that come through quarter-twenty that little washer and knob will go on the reason there's two bolts sometimes I need to get closer I just punch this one out and put it back if I need it you could probably get away of doing one but that just goes on like so and then simply this one will go on top and then it just gets connected with some more bolts and loves so real simple it used is a 5/8 guy Bhushan let's kind of give it a go and do some mortises now I've got a couple of test pieces I'm gonna go ahead and find the center let's say this is gonna be a leg and this is an apron so real simple way to find the center right now measurement doesn't really matter to me I just need to find the center of this thickness and instead of me coming my tape measure and dividing and begin it dead-on I'll just come across with my square drawn ID go to the 45 part line it up half a CLE to the edge of that nighti go across and then do the same back the other way where those two points meet is dead center and right now a measurement doesn't really help me I'm just I just know that this mortise has to be in the center of this piece I'm going to set my marking gauge on my marking gauge want my square up to that mark and then just draw it going across all right so we've got that this I do need a measure so it's roughly four inch just call it two and square that across so now for this I have my two crosshairs that's what I need for this jig do the same to the leg again anyway on this leg I'm just going to draw a square excuse me come across 45 45 if you don't line this up perfectly where these two lines intersect it's obviously not going to be centered all right so that's that and then I said from the top of this I'm gonna call this the top I came down two inches I'll do the same hair all right so that's all I need to be also basically get this modest and I'll show you how I do that so like I mentioned before this jig simply works off Center marks so now that I have both my pieces laid out with the center marks you know it's just real easy on the top of the jig here I have a center mark that's transferred down inside this 5/8 inch groove which my guide bushing is going to ride inside of and then I have a simple block that's a perfect 5/8 by 5/8 with a centerline scribed in the middle so that way I can drop it down and move this back and forth until it intersects with my line so I'm good to go on that the last thing I need to know is well how is that mortise and I know I want one in 5/8 so the way I like to think about it which is probably pretty confusing but I simply if I put my router up here and plunge down out of that one and 5/8 I've already subtracts subtracted a half-inch because I have a half inch diameter bit so what that leaves me with is inch and an eighth so I like to think of it as travel so I've gone down I've already taken care of half inch how much travel do I need to do to be also make the one a 5/8 while its inch and an eighth so this has to move an inch and an eighth so knowing that I will measure to my base plate which is 7 inches plus inches and nape gets me eight and 1/8 then I make a shim exactly eight and 1/8 long I'll find the center on it transfer it down the edge put that on here and I already have my Center mark hair which my piece is centered up on line it up and now I can bring my stops to it and lock it down now this is really helpful if for some reason you're doing multiple mortises and you have to move things around if you want to get back to a repeatable repeatable you know one of five eighths again and again you just simply put this back down and bring your stops to it so you can hang this up on the wall I've marked it 1/2 inch by 1 or 5/8 tenon ok so now I'm just going to drop my router bit until it hits my workpiece have you you know everybody's routers a little different in this one I'm just going to simply set it up one inch deep so right now I'm at zero I'm gonna go one inch so my travel down will be one inch I'm gonna step it off to the side and just double-check that I'm not going to hit anything and it looks like I'm good sometimes it will hit that guide bushing all right let's mortise [Applause] [Applause] so you know it makes a super-clean mortis as you can see don't Ryo know what you're thinking it's not in the center this way I actually offset it a little bit just for this demonstration to make it work it's time to do this guy I'm going to change my stops my clamps around I need to move this guy bring my little block back just line it up so when those lines intersect with each other they line up I'm good to go now find the center this way [Applause] all right so as you can see it's real fast accurate and pretty easy to use so the cool thing with this jig is you know more you use it and more you get used to to it obviously and you know you get used to make in a bunch of the 10 stocks so this jig I would use mainly foot in slip Tenon's and as you can see I usually would just blank out big strips of this so that's why it's nice to have this option of being else to go back to that one in five eighths you know mortise because I have a bunch of this and sometimes I'll design my project around what I have and so I can simply put this back make the mortise I already have to the tenant stick made so that being said there it is and there obviously this would be a little undersized for this piece but for demo purpose it should work and nice tight snug fit real fast and easy I hope this video is somewhat useful and like I said if you like to look at this jig please make sure you head over to Philip with financial comm get yourself some plans please hit that like share subscribe button however it works on YouTube and yeah leave some comments and if you make some jigs if you make this jig please share some pictures of it and I would love to love to see it and see what touches you put on it Cheers preciate it [Music]

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Id: eHIOTXABu60

Length: 10min 50sec (650 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 10 2017