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   Deleted | Mar 25, 2022 11:13am | #1

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   john_c2 | Mar 25, 2022 12:18pm | #2

   I think this is what you're looking for. Tage Frid made the original. I used it for many years, and its a great jig.

   https://www.finewoodworking.com/1981/10/01/routing-mortises

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   roy.unit8c | Mar 25, 2022 01:05pm | #3

   What plunge-type router make do you recommend nowadays, John_C2?

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   john_c2 | Mar 25, 2022 01:51pm | #4

   When I used the above jig, I always used the same Makita that Frid used. I think its a 3600B. I loved the base. Wide and rectangular. I don't know why no one makes a base like that anymore, instead of just round.

   Most of my routing now is with a Bosch 1617EVS. Great router. If I were going to buy one now, I'd get the newer version, the Bosch MRC23EVSK.

   One of the great things about the Bosch is that it's easy to find 5/16 and 3/8 collets. It lets you use long spiral bits in those diameters for deep mortises.

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   jim_hall | Mar 25, 2022 02:56pm | #5

   Not a video and not Van Dyke's, but if you have access to the May/April 2007 issue 190 of FW mag, Kevin Rodell describes his Mortising router box beginning on page 52. Rodell uses it in the article to make angled and straight mortises in chair legs. Good luck with your project.

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   [email protected] | Mar 27, 2022 05:06pm | #6

   If you search back issues,Klaus (first name ??)has a fantastic article describing a similar box but,more importantly,a tenon cutting jig that I have used for 20 years on literally hundreds of tenons.I now have a homemade morticing machine but the tenon cutter is brilliant .I will look up the article when I get home.Frank Klaus I believe is his name.