STOP Making Mortises So Complicated!

I just need a hand saw and a chisel. This is ridiculously complicate.

Great personality !

35 years?! Aww man, here I thought you were closer to my 47 years. Ah well, guess you just look old. 😂🤣😂🤣😉

I love your channel, but I stopped watching when you pulled out the Shaper. With the title of "STOP Making Mortises So Complicated!", it is click-bait, that doesn't deliver. I will keep watching your other videos, but you get a thumbs down for this "trap".

Another self taught hipster faking it to make it. Tragic but all to typical these day's. What a hack.

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Well it is certainly a touch faster than the old Mallet and Chisel... Thanks for making me feel like a Dinosaur🤣...... But then again I am a dedicated maker of things with handtools so there is that.

I wish I could be 35 years young again 🫤

Stop making mortises so complicated! Just use the Shaper Origin ! lol

This is not a typical router. What kind of machine is this? Most of us don’t own this machine. Looks like a very expensive plunge router. OK, after looking in the description, yes, it’s a $700 machine. That’s why mortises are complicated. Unless you own a very expensive machine. Definitely not DIY cheap. This also takes no skill. People who use machines like these to do mortises and tenons have virtually no skillset whatsoever for cutting them freehand. Oh well, to each his own I guess.

Eric very expensive tool! Yes professionals need very expensive tools to be productive Exedra. On the table and archwood look really cool versus the low rail imo. Also make it easier to clean the floor around it! Just another idea! Well done

Sans fancy machine, what is your recommendation on shaping tenons with round shoulders which would fit into the router cut mortise?

Great explanation, you're a person of details! FYI, the word myriad means 'thousands of', therefore you don't need to say 'myriad of', just 'myriad' ie 'There's myriad ways to do this'. Thought I'd let you know as details always matter!

I didn’t realize I needed a shaper origin… until now 😀😀😀

Thankd for sharing

It is much more fun to be complicated!

Wow!!! 35??!! I was 35 once long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away. Kidding aside, great content. Thanks. Also glad to see you don't obsess about squaring the ends of your mortises.

Festool makes good stuff, but I absolutely HATE that router. That asymetrical handle design is uncomfortable, and cumbersome. It's even worse than the handle on the Kapex

It was helpful. Julien Lamarche

Don't worry about the wrinkles, young fellow. You'll get used to them eventually. It's the aches & pains you should be concerned with.

I don’t know why there aren’t more commercial guides that that available for all routers! I have been looking for something with two adjustable fences, and festool has one for their routers and then there’s a couple people making kind of bulky versions on Etsy. Seems like a real gap in the market.

Great video. But why couldn't you have shown how to do this with no tools and no wood? You know, for my personal circumstances!
(Actually another great video, and something to aspire to. Thanks friend.)

why not cut both using shaper?

I'm getting a good laugh at some of the comments here, some people just cant be helped. Great video buddy I use the plung router myself but I'm going to try that trim router idea for the crack.

I own both dominoes and a very large Mortiser. I can’t use the mortise much because of the strain it puts on my shoulders; so, dominos, it is. However, if you don’t feel like taking out a second mortgage, there is a way that I think is easier.

Use the double fence method to cut the mortise in both the stile and rail (in other words, both pieces). Then make a loose tenon to fit. The advantage of this method is that you can make mistakes on that loose tenon (oh dear, cut too narrow or too short) and just remake the tenon whilst not sacrificing the stile or rail. Make loose tenons any away you want and, if you want to be pedantic, file those ends round to fit the mortise shape; I rarely bother because the real strength doesn’t come from the tight fit of the ends but the long glue joints of the sides.

Hope that helps someone

Rookie here. What would be the method of making those rounded tenons without the shaper?

Most garage hobby woodworkers can not afford a domino router. That is for the pros. So a half useless instruction.

Try doubling that age! I am really slowing down but still at it.

Nice, I really like the double fence idea. Heading out to the shop now to practice with my router. Another great video!

11 minutes to say something that could have been said in 30 seconds?

You’re massively over complicating this. Just set it in your 5-axis CNC milling machine with automatic tool changer and laser position compensator. One step, done in a minute. 👌

Never thought of using a second fence on the router to center it for a mortise. That's alot cheaper than buying that plexiglass attachment Festool offers. Thanks for posting. Mark

Don’t make it so hard! Buy tools that make it easy! Lol

Sorry, is this the easy way????

Great video! You are absolutely right about people overthinking the whole process.

Just get the domino out job done 😂

Two pieces of wood on bottom of router is what I do. I recently bought some acrylic so i can make an adjustable width and see through it. Basically just two slots on each side that can adjust for width. The depth I keep at a few inches as it helps with stability using a larger router. I'm using a 2.5 hp bosch, thing is heavy. The great thing is people will say "Just get a domino" but I will tell you this - if you have a large project and have a lot of mortices to cut, you just arrange the pieces by size and batch them out. Then you slide the adjuster and route the next set, and so on.

Would a domino be faster? YES. It's literally mark the top, set the domino to height needed and go. The flow for the router is basically, get it out, and you can either use some double sided tape (I like spectre tape, thinner than that stupid 3m stuff but it's more expensive) and attach a couple pieces of wood. Find your center on bit and go to town.

The bottom line is if you are a production shop, make money - then time is money - then get a domino. The domino is much faster and if you're saving many hours a week, then it's literally paying for itself. I don't own festool products, and that's not because I don't want certain ones, it's only because It's a want, not a need :)

I have no idea what that second machine even is. I certainly don't have one, so that's eleven and half minutes wasted.

This guy who thinks his a big shot should let people do as they please not as he wants still haven't found a person who doesn't make mistakes who are far better than this so called carpenter sure hope you stop judging people, pray that God Almighty gives you peace.Bottom line

How to cut mortise and tenons for $5,000

Buy a Festool Domino if u are doing a lot of tenons.

This is so complicated!

Yeah, I checked the price of a Shaper Origin (USD3599), and it's out of my budget, but I do have a power rack, barbell, and set of plates that I paid USD6,000 for, so maybe it evens out in the end.

Another option is to create two mortises and use a floating tenon.

Ah, yes. I learned how to complete half the task.

This common man is just jealous of your router lol. But, i do love my Skil 2.5 hp router. Beautiful video sir.

You are leaning in to the insufferable hipster thing, and it is not the right choice. (Even if you are in Portland, which I am going to assume).