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   douglas2cats | Apr 01, 2006 03:10pm | #1

   You can get router bits (both spiral & straight) long enough to go all the way through but the longer ones are pricey, especially the spirals. I think I'd just go old-school and use a forstner bit to drill all the way through, then square up the walls and corners with hand chisels using a clamped on block to register the chisel against to make sure it's kept perpendicular. You might also be able to use the Jet and slip a spacer under the leg to raise it up and go the rest of the way through although that may still have alignment issues if the location gets shifted when you raise it up.

   If you build it he will come.

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   Marty_S | Apr 02, 2006 12:31am | #2

   Wht I usually do is this:  Once you've set your mortise to the proper set-back distance from the fence, plunge about 1/2" into your base (I'm assuming yours is wooden, like mine).  Then go about cutting all your mortises.  Using that mortise you cut into your table, make a tenon to fit, that sits approximately 3/16" proud of the surface.  This acts as a reference point, which you can use to ensure that when you flip your board with the mortise cut almost through, the mortises you'll then cut will come out exactly right on top.  Should your mortises be larger than that one plunge - which is usually the case - go ahead and move the board around, but keep an edge always registered against your stub tenon.

   Marty

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   SteveSchoene | Apr 02, 2006 01:02am | #3

   You want to mortise from both sides anyway to ensure clean openings on both faces.  Its primarily a matter of keeping the same reference surface registered against the fence--just like you would do if you were laying out the mortise with a gauge. 

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   correy | Apr 02, 2006 05:07am | #4

   Sounds too complicated.If your stock is square,you can reference off the fence.Flip the work over keeping the same face to the fence and cut the other side.Cutting half way on each side also helps keep the bit from clogging in the cut and over heating.-C

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   correy | Apr 03, 2006 06:04am | #5

   What are you doweling?Or dowel jiggin'? They're cutting through mortices.-C

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   DonC | Apr 05, 2006 06:46pm | #6

   Go as deep as you like from one side. Flip and cut only 1/2" and install a Faux tenon. It will look the same.

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   joinerswork | Apr 05, 2006 09:04pm | #7

   Don,

   Faux, is that short for fauxny?

   Cheers,

   Ray Pine