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    Alternative approach to cutting tenons

    I don’t own a table saw, and secretly hate referencing square off of the end grain. These cuts were ultra-critical so I decided to use the knee mill.

    Instead, the vise is indexed off of the mill and head trammed square. Can’t get much more square then this.

    https://youtu.be/6vp1Gb7QvCQ
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    Overkill Brian? What will you do for Ultra-Ultra Critical cuts when that need arises?
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    Do you have any idea how many jigs and fixtures manufacturers you could put out of business???
    All kidding aside, that's pretty cool.
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    You should be lubricating that cut ...
    "the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.” Confucius

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    Thanks gents!

    Bill, that’s a good one!

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    Quote Originally Posted by David Eisenhauer View Post
    Overkill Brian? What will you do for Ultra-Ultra Critical cuts when that need arises?
    Actually for Brian that may be underkill. You should check out his video of the piston fit inserts in a caddy he made to house dirt balls*. It is on his youtube channel.


    * no offense intended to the skill it takes to make those fine dirtballs, calling them dirtballs instead of dorodango produced more impact in my sentence.
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    Brian you’re the man! I use my Bridgeport now and then for woodworking. Some people wonder how I made certain cuts so precise. You forgot to show how you left a 0.0625” radius fillet in the corner for strength and used a Micrometre to leave .001 for glue tolerance. lol.

    Edit; I do love how you added a lightening hole to your set up block. Your set up block is wood right???
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    Haha, they are neat balls if dirt, aren’t they?

    Glad that you guys enjoyed this bit of craziness. I’ve been on a Bridgeport binge lately as it makes certainly chair related cuts very easy (like angled round mortises) and thin bridle joints.

    I dragged home a rotary table for it and spent the evening cleaning it up and putting it back into working order. It had a nice chuck on it as well that was also rusted to hell, so I cleaned that up as too.

    I’ll take some video of the work I do with it, which will also be chair related.

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    Geeze. And here I thought you were a Neanderthal.

    Are you going to be cutting tenons with lasers guided from space next?

    If I were you, I would buy a table saw just for the street cred.

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    Matt, it’s oak, hehe, not quite aluminum, brass or steel but it works in a pinch

    I set it up as a stop, so the hole is for a bolt that goes through to a t-nut.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Zellers View Post
    Geeze. And here I thought you were a Neanderthal.

    Are you going to be cutting tenons with lasers guided from space next?

    If I were you, I would buy a table saw just for the street cred.
    Both, I decided at some point last year that I needed to add good machinery and basically use all of the tools available to me; hand and machine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Holcombe View Post
    Matt, it’s oak, hehe, not quite aluminum, brass or steel but it works in a pinch

    I set it up as a stop, so the hole is for a bolt that goes through to a t-nut.
    I look forward to your future videos, especially if your surface grinding , Cyl grinding or jig grinding wood (or wire/sink EDM) more lol.

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    Cool video. All I kept thinking was I sure hope there is no way that blade could come off. Don’t know why that would worry me more than a table saw arbor but that’s what my head went to first. LOL

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    Hah! Given the current technology maybe a wire edm for wood isn’t far off, lol.

    I might setup a few blades on a single arbor for cutting double tenons on stuff I do all the time (like chairs).

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