New - CMT Divided Light Bit Set - "Making a Special Mirror"

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     She will use the table saw and the stacked dado set to cut the tenons. These tenons could also be made very easily at the router table.
   Since the mortise is not exactly in the middle of the workpiece, she will set the height for one side of each tenon at a time.
   She sets the height using the mortise of the sample piece she cut at the beginning.

  If there is a "trick" to making great tenons, it is to take your time and do each step carefully. Beth has carefully raised the dado cutters until she has gotten exactly the right cut for the top of the tenon.
   Having made one pass, she can adjust the Incra Stop on the Incra Miter Gauge so that her final cut will give her a tenon that is exactly 1" long [she has made her mortise depth, 1 1/8" deep.]

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       With the tops cut, she is back to her sample piece. She raises the dado blades very slightly and makes more passes until the cut is exactly right.

   She checks her final cut.

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   We are not sure exactly why, but the instructions say to have the bottom tenon 1/16" wider than the top. The adjustment of the Incra Stop makes adding this fraction very easy and exact.

   I don't know if you can see it, but the lower tenon is 1/16" wider — Beth has made a very exact tenon. Now it is time to add the cope shape.

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    As I noted at the beginning, the new bit set has a cope bit with a pattern bearing — it makes this set very unique.

   Beth chides me for using the Delta Miter Gauge — "something we will probably never use" she reminds me of my recent words.
   She has used the forward clamp to hold a piece of 1/2" MDF which she is adjusting to ride against the bearing.

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    She has now placed her tenon face side down on the 1/2" MDF and is adjusting the height of the bit so that the bit just "kisses" the underside of the tenon.
   The RouterRaizer™ makes adjusting the router easy and precise.

  With the router bit height set, she can place the workpiece against the miter gauge and carefully adjusts the end so that the tenon's shoulder is aligned with the 1/2" MDF. She uses the second holddown to clamp the workpiece in place.

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   If a picture can tell a story, this is that picture. Beth makes the cut. In fact, we probably should have added a backer board behind the workpiece to minimize splintering. Beth just made the cut slowly

   She has a perfect coped tenon. Now she can profile the rails and stiles.

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