Woodworkers, (humblebrag thread) I bought a Leigh Frame, Mortise, and Tenon jig

[Russel Nash]

It looks like this:



I haven't had a chance to tinker with it yet.

It should be pretty sweet.

It uses these plastic templates or guides to like "track" the router to make the mortise and the tenon.

Just draw a crosshairs on your stock and line up the jig's sight:





There is a tapered pin that rides in those "tracks" of the plastic templates.

So to tune the fit of the mortise and tenon joint, you can screw that pin in or out.

[JWT]

Nice tool.

[Russel Nash]

Nice tool.

Thank you sir!

I read through the instruction manual again today. It is 65 pages long...just 65.

Here is how those templates interact with the tapered pin:

[Russel Nash]

My plan is to take a video of it using my pivot head eyeglass cam. The lens is right on the nose piece between the lenses.

It would probably work out best if I could do a voice- over when editing the video.


But I will be back to post the video here.

[merlin101]

It looks impressive but then again I don't really know what it is! I am interested and will be watching

[bdicki]

Wow that's a pricey little sucker. I'll have to stick with my table saw jig.

[MaryB]

Want to drool go to Lee Valley Tools... everything a woodworker could want...

[Russel Nash]

It looks impressive but then again I don't really know what it is! I am interested and will be watching

It is a device for making mortises, like in a table leg, and make their matching tenon on the "apron".

The jig comes with a 5/16ths diameter upcut spiral router bit.

So with a 2X4 clamped in the jig yesterday, I made this mortise:



You make the mortise by having the left tapered pin ride in the hole or slot of that template pictured above.

Then I made a tenon on a 1X3 by placing the left pin on the outside of the template and making the pin ride against that square-ish template part. At first, my tenon was too loose:



Then I flipped the 1X3 end for end and dialed the tapered pin all the way down. That would give me the fattest tenon at first. Then I turned the tapered pin one notch at a time:



Until the tenon would slide in with some resistance, but I didn't need a mallet to beat it into place:



The key to this whole jig is the ability to position and lock down a stop block. If you have a table with 4 legs, that is 8 mortises and 8 matching tenons you have to cut. Get the first mortise where you want it, the set the stops.

You only have to lay out the first mortise. Then you can machine the remaining 7 lickety split.

Then you get the first tenon marked out. You fine tune the fit, and then you can machine the other 7 tenons...also lickety split.

[Russel Nash]

Wow that's a pricey little sucker. I'll have to stick with my table saw jig.

yes it is. I bought it off of Craig's List, used, so that saved me $200 or $300.

[Russel Nash]

Want to drool go to Lee Valley Tools... everything a woodworker could want...

Yessir!

Another place to check out for higher end hand tools is Lie-Nielsen:
https://www.lie-nielsen.com/

And Bridge City:
http://m.mobilewebsiteserver.com/sit...le.com%2F#2723

or try this:

https://www.bridgecitytools.com/?no_redirect=true

[TCLouis]

That is a nice looking machine.
Function is likely better than the looks too.

[Shopdog]

Very nice,am sure you'll get a lot of enjoyment using it.

194? J.D.Wallace hollow chisel mortiser here....retro fitted (no bubba to original)with pneumatic hold downs and chip evac.

[abunaitoo]

Very nice.

[Russel Nash]

Very nice,am sure you'll get a lot of enjoyment using it.

194? J.D.Wallace hollow chisel mortiser here....retro fitted (no bubba to original)with pneumatic hold downs and chip evac.

I did a bing image search for J.D. Wallace hollow chisel mortiser.

That looks like a heck of a machine.

Very nice!

[Russel Nash]

That is a nice looking machine.
Function is likely better than the looks too.

I think the key is that tapered pin adjuster.

It is not very many hundreths between a good fit and a sloppy fit.