in preparation for a number of mortises I need to make, I took the plunge (pun intended) and built a mortising jig for the router. Til now, I've either done them blind on the router table which is a bit of pain to setup or just chopped them with a chisel/mallet. On a recent post on routers and tables, someone mentioned Carol Reed's book "Router Joinery Workshop". so I picked it up at the library, thumbed through it and here's what I got- my new mortising jig!. Basically the router just rides in the miter slot (from my little router table) that sits on top of a fixed jaw (1.5" thick). The other is moveable and clamps the workpiece. The router lady used a veneer press screw, which I haven't got, so I'll just improvise for now. I made router stops for the miter slot out of maple and so far have just secured them with a clamp, but will likely to need to upgrade at some point.
