Ep 7: Drilling and chopping mortises
Mike heads to the drill press to hog away most of the material before cleaning up the through-mortises at the bench.
Jan 21, 2020
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Videos in the Series
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Ep 1: Hanging Wall Cabinet with Mike Pekovich–IntroDecember 17, 2019 -
Ep 2: Laying Out and Rabbeting the CaseDecember 17, 2019 -
Dovetailing on the Table SawDecember 24, 2019 -
Ep 4: Hand-cut pins with a twistDecember 31, 2019 -
Ep 5: Fitting the dovetailsJanuary 7, 2020 -
Through Mortise-and-Tenon LayoutJanuary 14, 2020 -
Ep 7: Drilling and chopping mortisesJanuary 21, 2020 -
Ep 8: Cutting the tenonsJanuary 28, 2020 -
Ep 9: Prefinishing and gluing up the caseFebruary 4, 2020 -
Ep 10a: Making the door frameFebruary 11, 2020 -
Ep 10b: Creating the door panel and dry-fittingFebruary 11, 2020 -
Ep 11: Sizing the kumiko gridFebruary 18, 2020 -
Ep 12: Door glue-upFebruary 25, 2020 -
Ep 13a: Fitting the doorMarch 3, 2020 -
Ep 13b: Mounting the door hingesMarch 3, 2020 -
Ep 14: Door detailsMarch 10, 2020 -
Half-Blind Dovetailed Drawer – part 1March 17, 2020 -
Half-Blind Dovetailed Drawer – part 2March 17, 2020 -
Drawer Grooves and Glue-UpMarch 17, 2020 -
Ep 16: Shiplapped back boardsMarch 24, 2020 -
Ep 17: Fitting the drawerMarch 31, 2020 -
Ep 18a: Kumiko–Asa No Ha pattern part 1April 7, 2020 -
Ep 18b: Kumiko–Asa No Ha pattern part 2April 7, 2020 -
Ep 18c: Trimming a kumiko panel to sizeApril 7, 2020 -
Ep 19: Simple shellac and wax finishApril 14, 2020 -
Ep 20a: Installing the shelf supports and hardwareApril 21, 2020 -
Ep 20b: Installing a bullet catch–ConclusionApril 21, 2020
Comments
I am curious if it would be a bad idea to use a hollow chisel mortise machine for creating those mortises?
Not if your chisel is sharp and you have the tool setup correctly. You will probably finish the mortise with your chisel to fine tune the shoulders anyway.
That being said, not many have the hollow mortise chisel, sometimes I wish I did. I think though that this is an exercise in hand tool technique.
Even set up properly my HCM does not leave a nice clean "entry wound"...usually a shadow of the drill bit leaving a small crescent outside of the wall. If you need to clean them up anyway the drill press is probably easier. My HCM is best suited to blind mortises...but it might just be my machine (Benchtop Jet).
Inspiring work to say the least. Just curious...I notice that when you measure and mark with a ruler, rather than keeping the ruler stationary and using the ruler markings to guide your pencil mark, you slide the ruler to a new position and then choose a mark. What are you doing and how does this help? Thanks!
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