How to make a square mortise with a drill press and a forstner bit!

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[oldstudbuck]

One week into five weeks at home recovering from surgery. Binge watching woodworking videos. Mostly yours. Thanks for the effort putting this stuff out. I’ve learned much. I’m having to rewatch and take notes.

[gradywright]

I learned more in this 5min video than a week long wood working class. Thank you so much!

[dfu]

Makes perfect sense and that must be why I couldn’t figure out how to do it. Thanks Stumpy!

[dsigetich]

Well, ya did it again, James -- clear, concise, and effective. Thanks again, sir.

[SmallWorkshopGuy]

Another excellent and educational tutorial, Stumpy. I for one appreciate the fact that you continue to roll out videos useful to even the newest of woodworkers. Great job!

[GentlemanH]

Well explained with good camera work showing the workpiece in question at various stages. Thanks from Cape Town, South Africa.

[rickgarcia]

I chop my mortises by hand and this has convinced me that a drill press with set of good forstner bits is the way to go. Great tutorial!

[donpoitras]

Very well explained!You're a great teacher.

[mostly_ignored]

You explain things better than any other wood working channel. Thanks for the attention to detail.

[tchad]

Thank you for this technique. I have purchased a Woodsmith plan for a Craftsman style front door. The instructions call for drilling 3/4" x 3" deep mortises with a plunge router and a 1/2" x 4" roughing end mill. I started looking for such a bit and discovered the one I would need is about $100. I already own a 5 piece set of Fisch forstner bits, and they proven to be very capable over the last year. I intend to try your technique before I spend $100 on a single router bit. Since the stiles are about 80" long, I will have to devise some auxiliary supports for my drill press.

[neilfurby]

Great tutorial, clear, brief, and well illustrated. Thankyou

[jsagers]

Stumpy... You're the frickin' man! Such an easy explanation. Thanks!

[danschechter]

Thanks for posting this! Great point about boring the ends before the middle -- I never would have thought of that.

[bnelsonbraveheart]

I haven’t thought about that. I have a project where I need to cut 4 through joints for an old chair design and this might be the best way to get it done. Thanks!

[AB-C]

Great video thanks from London England 👍

[andrewbrown]

Excellent technique~! I'll definitely go this route on my next project with mortise & tenon joints. Thanks~!

[dl]

Clear, concise and very helpful. -Thanks!

[clydedecker]

Good clear tutorial but one thing might be easier. The center of any thing is easily found by laying a ruler on the board at an angle to a point where there is an even division of markings and getting the center of those (i.e. marks at 0 and 4 - the center is 2 etc.) is easier for me than splitting the difference of the estimated center. Just me though. - I have always angled the ruler to get evenly divisible numbers and used that to find the center.

[CodeSeen]

You mentioned you were going to add a link to a good video showing how to create the tenons, as well. I don't see it; did I miss it somewhere? Thank you, LOVE your vids! God bless.

[bruce-le-smith]

this is awesome, love the pragmatism, don't fancy burning incense and sacrifices to wood gods of mortises