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Originally Posted by
Marshall K Harrison
The solution to that is to hold some other boards up on either side of the board that you are routing the mortice into. That gives you a wider surface to balance the router on. It's also a good idea to have the other boards extend past the one you are routing so that your router doesn't take a nose dive when you run off the end of your board with the router base.
The better solution is to build my horizontal router mortiser. It will be the best $100 you ever spend on woodworking.
You will never fear having to make mortises again, especially if you have to cut a few hundred of them. Every one will be accurately located, have clean, parallel sides, and require zero clean-up afterwards. Just look at the photos and video in the link I provided.
John