I am building four patio chairs out of white oak (see pic as example). The arms are a full 2"x4" all the way around, top/bottom and uprights. I have bandsawed 4" in on 4" high wood for the open mortise (see pic) where the arms connect at 90 degrees. My issue now is how to hog out the center part with a nice flush back as the joints will be very visible. My 8" dado will only take out half of it using a tenoning jig as it will only raise up 2" above the table saw top. I have 16 of these 2"x4" boards 30" long, so that means hogging out the center portion 32 times (once on each end). I have an 18" band saw (MiniMax S45) and the motor got really hot yesterday cutting these open mortises. I will have to do the same to cut the tenons on 32 ends of the uprights which are also the same 2"x4" material but, thankfully no hogging out on these though. so how would you clean these mortises out and leave a nice flat back? i really don't want to do hand chisel work on 32 ends of white oak....I'm 73 and may not have that much time left - ha ha. (I could have saved my self a lot work by using 3.5" wood and not 4", maybe next time. Learning experience!) Open to any suggestions on how to hog out this center portion... Randy PS hopefully the two pics will show up right side up.
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