Just for the heck of it -
what's the smallest hand-cut mortise you've ever made?
I've made a number of 1/8" by 7/16" -ers the past few days. I thought
it was the best way to fasten something in tight quarters around
rather thin wood. It wasn't really any harder than larger ones. In
fact, the little 1/8" chisel sinks into hard woods so easily, it's
fun.
James
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well that pretty much ends THAT topic.
seriously though, Leigh has a photo in their catalog of mortice and
tenon joints cut into match sticks with a router.
-Dan V.
On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 16:12:07 GMT, "Bob S." <[email protected]> wrote:
>Never measured them but made some picture frames with M&T joints using an
>Xacto knife and wooden match sticks and one big magnifying lamp....;-)
>Niece wanted some decorations for her doll house and thought some pictures
>would be nice.
>
Now that I gotta go look at....
I lost count of how many of the matchstick mortises split but I ended up
putting some CA glue on them before cutting them out.
Bob S.
"Dan Valleskey" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> well that pretty much ends THAT topic.
>
> seriously though, Leigh has a photo in their catalog of mortice and
> tenon joints cut into match sticks with a router.
>
> -Dan V.
>
> On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 16:12:07 GMT, "Bob S." <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Never measured them but made some picture frames with M&T joints using an
> >Xacto knife and wooden match sticks and one big magnifying lamp....;-)
> >Niece wanted some decorations for her doll house and thought some
pictures
> >would be nice.
> >
>
>
Yeah, I've seen that ad too. I wonder where you would get a router bit
that small???
Layne
On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 05:29:05 GMT, [email protected] (Dan
Valleskey) wrote:
>
>well that pretty much ends THAT topic.
>
>seriously though, Leigh has a photo in their catalog of mortice and
>tenon joints cut into match sticks with a router.
Never measured them but made some picture frames with M&T joints using an
Xacto knife and wooden match sticks and one big magnifying lamp....;-)
Niece wanted some decorations for her doll house and thought some pictures
would be nice.
Bob S.
"brocpuffs" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Just for the heck of it -
>
> what's the smallest hand-cut mortise you've ever made?
>
> I've made a number of 1/8" by 7/16" -ers the past few days. I thought
> it was the best way to fasten something in tight quarters around
> rather thin wood. It wasn't really any harder than larger ones. In
> fact, the little 1/8" chisel sinks into hard woods so easily, it's
> fun.
>
> James
> [email protected]
>
>