Even thought I really was not a very good boy this year, Santa brought me a set of tenoning discs!
Now I need to figure out how to use them. Basically, I want to make mostly 1/4 and 5/16 tenons accurately and quickly, and sometimes bigger. The discs are 8" x 1", with sets of two bolted together, but usable by themselves. Nickers on the inside. It looks like it will be easy enough to use the wixey digital height gauge to get table to bottom nicker height to set the spindle height to correspond to the distance from the show face of the board to the tenon cheek. Tenon thickness with calipers, nicker to nicker, using shims to adjust.
The problem is guarding the cutter, and guiding the wood.
I just picked up a sliding table from the auction-- is this the best way to do it, or else a sled against the fence? Should I get a fence with a continuous strip down the middle? I'll appreciate all the advice I can get, I want a smooth learning curve with this one.
Thanks
Steve