Originally Posted by
George Yetka
You are letting the bit do the cutting correct? My first mortise I cut I ended up pushing a little too hard and raised the domino of the work piece a bit. It made the mortise not square. afterwords I took my time and let the bit do the cutting.
This is good advice...I was "shoving it in" when I first got my DF700 but learned that slow and steady was a lot more accurate. Holding the fence down on the material securely, pushing from the back and letting the cutter have time to penetrate, cut and evacuate the chips make for the most consistent cutting. Side grain and end grain place different stresses on the cutter, too, so slow and steady also helps with that.
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