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With so many ways to do everything in woodworking, sometimes it’s overwhelming. This looks like an elegant fool proof procedure delivered by a real teacher. Very nice 👍

Great video. Sometimes I think people forget that mortice & tenon joinery has been around much longer than the power tools that are widely used to make them - they used to all be cut by hand. Your method here is a perfect blend of personal power tools and hand tools.

I don't know but I was expecting magic, still good for the new guys though 👌

Very clear, I'll definitely try that. I especially like that you didn't assume everyone has high tech tools. Some of us just have the basics.

I like to look at the edges of the bit when it starts cutting. If I cuts all edges at once I know I'm fairly square. If one side cuts first I know I need to lean away from that side

Perfect tutorial on making a mortice. I like the common sense approach and showing the tips and tricks that make it easier to be successful. Thank you!

Another no frills outstanding demonstration of how to make arguably the best wood working joint ever. Nicely done!

I like this kind of videos, where newbies like me learn something! Thank you!

I bought a set of quality forstner bits and it was a revelation. As always, James, thank you for sharing 🌞

Wow, gotta say for a newbie woodworker trying to get my wits about me, your videos are my go-to source. You're a true professional in woodworking and teaching! Thank you so much from someone that really cares about learning this craft the right way.

... AND a chisel. 😉

Brilliantly clear and easy - legend James! Thanks!

Great video Stumpy. Quick and simple. Thanks.

You are really good at narrating and explaining what you're doing. Pretty exceptional

Wow, that tip, finding the center, is something I've struggled with forever, and you made it so easy. THANKS!

This video is a great help for me trying to learn mortise and tenon joinery. Thank you so much!

It's good to see the basics covered in such a fashion, well done

Several excellent tips. As always, thanks much, James.

Love this video! Simple, easy instructions!

Great video, such an easy and to the point explanation. I appreciate that.

Genius! Excellent technique. Thank you for sharing!

Getting a kick out of this. I volunteer at a historically accurate 19th century carpenter's shop. Square mortises are pretty much all auger and chisel work

I really need to have a notepad handy when I watch your videos. So many tips!

This is such a great video. Great info and it is also great for someone new to follow. This is how it was always done but we forget with so many power options.

Excellent, simple, practical and accessible, Thanks !

BRILLIANT! Thanks again Stumpy. You’ve really helped me with SO many things.

That was a great video. Some fantastic tips there on making a mortice. Thank you.

some things never get old. not that i ever really made a drawer (for example) but i've thought about it and watched a few vids. good vid. easy to understand.

Thanks a bunch for the tutorial, James! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

These are excellent tips! Thank you very much.

I bought my first Fisch bit last month on your recommendations in previous videos. A 2". The BEST forstner bit !!! I'll never buy another brand again. Smoothest cut I've ever had. I didn't even have to sand the hole.

love the way you explain things, man. thank you for the good content

I am not really into fine wood working but I found your tutorial fascinating and engaging. You are a great instructor! Thanks!

Fantastic, thank you for sharing. Everyone stay safe, happy and healthy. From Henrico County Virginia

Thanks James. Excellent tutorial for a noob like me!

Admittedly kind of obvious if you think about it, but I had never seen the "angled ruler" method for center finding. Brilliant, thank you!

Sharpness of tools vital for accuracy! 👏👍😀

You have an excellent instructional technique. Thanks for the info.

Thanks for the “straight forward”, but informative guide to mortising.

I really enjoy watching your videos.

That's good information James. Thanks for sharing with everyone. Fred.

Great video! So helpful!

Outstanding video!!! Thanks for posting.

I’m just starting with woodworking. This was very helpful. Thanks!!

I thought it was a great video, very informative and helpful..... loved it!!!!❤

OK, FIRST time on your channel that I actually got something new and radical.. I've been doing scoring in sheet metal for 45 years.. But I never thought about a scored line in wood before - probably because a scored line in wood can be hard to see in some lighting.. but.. your pencil line makes it visible! Great tip!

Thanks for this really helpful and informative video. I’ve learned a lot from it.👏👏

Excellent video, great information! Thank you…

Wow, very handy tip & great demonstration! Will have to try this out someday

I have pretty much become accustomed to the "click-bait" titles. I am afraid they are here to stay. I immediately thought of round or oval tenons. No square corners required. Hope the guy with the center finding question got straightened out. Your method appeared perfectly clear to me. Been using it for years. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂

Love it, mate. Keep 'em coming!

Back in the late 70's I was an apprentice working on restorations in very old (centuries) churches here in the UK. We would splice in new oak beams and recut massive mortises and tenons often working at great height in very awkward conditions. Even with power tools, scaffolding, lighting and heating it was a hell of a challenge. It brought home to me just how hard those guys back in the medieval period worked. I'm not at all religious but church construction has always fascinated me.

Keep the great videos coming,

Super useful tips for this process !!

I love this video's with the old ways my father has shown me over 40 years ago!

Great channel! Great content. I build traditional Square rule timberframe buildings. One thing I never see on KZfaq is a corner chisel. They are hard to find easy to make. Use a piece of 1 inch angle iron sharpen the inside edges and heat treat it. You don't need a fancy oven just heat to red hit and quench in oil. Weld a piece of solid rectangular steel to the 8 inch long piece of angle iron and make a wooden handle to slide over the steel tang. So nice to use on the inside corners. Fast and nice square corners. I took a timber framing school in Connecticut years ago and that was the first time I used one.

Love your work 👍

I really like your videos, especially this one. But… not the title. I felt a little misled. But still a great how to. Thanks and keep it up!

Very informative! Great video!

Very inspiring technique... Thank you very much 👌🏼😁

Great tip of using the awl to deepen the mark.

Great video. Thank you 👍

Great way to make it. Thanks!

Great video, as always.

For what is essentially an ad you gave us some really good simple tips, Well Done

Great tip. Thank you.

Thanks for this video. My basic tools fits into a toolbox.😆 At least I will be able to do the same quality type of job as your video now.👌🏼🙏🏼

As a rather new woodworker... i love you.

Good stuff! Love my Fisch forstner bits!

Pentel graphgear 1000, great pencils 👍

Always ......as always. Good advice

thanks for this tips

Cool. Thanks 👍 Stumpy. 😊

I use a small bubble level on the end of my drill to help with maintaining vertical alignment. It's worked very well. Just super glue it and you're good to go.

Thanks!!

Those are some nice bits! Would love to get a set like this one day.

I use mortising bits in my press. If you want to do a few holes here and there this is good but if you have a lot it is nice to be able to just use the press to your advantage.

Awesome helpful. Thanks

Okay now there is some cool tips

The amazing disapearing knott:)))))

To help keep your drilled holes vertical, set up a bit in a block or vise so it is vertical (use a level), tighten your drill to that, then glue a 'bulls eye' bubble level to the back of the drill so the bubble is centered. These levels used to be very common as people used them to set up their record turntables, but they are still available if you look around out there. Also, if you drill some small -say 1/16 (1.5mm) - holes in each corner it is easier to get the chisel into that square corner (unless you are using a specialized mortise or register chisel) as bevel edged chisels tend to squeeze out of the corner due to the wedging action of the bevel, so you may have to make the cut a few times for each corner.

that block at the end for a guide when chiselling down an edge, 👍👍👍👍👍

Glue and screws. Been doing that forever. It just works.

great work. can we do one for a hexagonal hole???

Great video thanks!

Nice video, well done. And you have a super nice collection of Narex chisels - my fav too. 😊

Great method

Great tips as always, Jim. I have a video topic idea for you. A while back you showed a router technique with a various bearing sizes to make panels with complementary curved edges that would fit together perfectly. Could you modify that technique to use only a straight bit of a common size (1/2"?) and a standard cheap bushing set like the Harbor Freight one? I haven't sat down to figure all the math to see what the proper size combinations would be, but it seems like it should be possible at first glance. Router bits can get expensive so it would be cool to be able to have a potentially cheaper alternative for someone who might already have a bushing set. Thanks for all the great content!

Good tips, as always...........

For those of us who are less adroit, there are hand drills with levels built in. My old corded DeWalt has one, and it's great for drilling a plumb hold spot on.

I like the shaving-brushing tape flap idea.

Just my level. Makes me want to make something

the marking is the difficult part for me, thank you for your tips

By the title i thought this was going to be some dark art, but no. I was pleased with the video though as it gives a couple of tips that most might not think about, and improve the finished job. Good work!

I would like to offer a few extra options as well, which I think are often overlooked. You can make round mortise and tenon as well (big round hole, big round tenon obviously). One I like even more, if you have any plunge routing capabilities (like a milling machine) or if you just really don't like or isn't good yet at squaring those corners after drilling like in the vid, just make a slow with rounded edges (like a "domino" slot, if you will). Ideally the tenon is a close match, but if it is gonna be invisible, a sloopish work at the round ends works too, glue and fine saw dust as a filler if you were really lazy, I mean sloppy. With just a few powertools and/or a chisel and rasp, I think it is both easy and sort of trivial (skill and experience aside) to figure them out and do them. Never did the round one meself, but the pieces I've seen with it, no problem, besides a potential spinning in place in assembly or over time when the glue gives up. I actually prefer the rounded ends over traditional square ones for through mortise and tenons, just for the aesthetics. And you can do all traditional reinforcement techniques for square ones with these too (wedged, with a dowel/pin through the mortise and tenon, bolt through, same ideas, just adapted to a modified shape, also these fix the round one's potential spining).

I'm terrible at holding a drill straight. I use two-sided tape to attach a little round bubble level to the back of my drill when I need to make fairly precise holes.

Tips all along the way

I learnt that technique back in High School here in Australia back in the late 1960's, early 1970's. It is so much easier to enlarge a basic hole than create the hole with the chisel.

Wish I had watched this yesterday before doing my first mortise/tenon joints ever (I did the tenons first ☹️).