New Product - "Quick Tenon - It's Aptly Named"

	To set up for making the sliding dovetail, she re-installs the tenon fence and adds a tenon stop to properly locate the workpiece.
She moves the back slide away from the workpiece. She will use the space here to place the router in the jig so that the bit does not touch the wood.  The curved portion of the dovetail will be routed on the end of the workpiece closest to her using the curve shape of the base, itself (arrow).
	She has clamped the workpiece in place and is now centering the piece by eye.
Keeping the jig in place with her right hand, she brings the left-hand stop in until it touches the jig and locks it in place there.
	She does the same with the right-hand stop. Now she is ready to cut her sliding dovetail.
She will start by removing some of the waste by routing in steps with the plunge router. This is necessary due to the density of the red oak she is routing.  She installs a 3/8" bit to make the cuts.
	She starts the cut in the 1 o'clock position ("X"), just off the board and keeps the router against the edge of the base as she works clockwise around the piece. She plunges about 1/4" on each pass until the set depth of 3/4".
With the straight bit having removed most of the waste, she uses the fixed based router with the dovetail bit set to the very same depth as for cutting the socket.  Maureen places in in the jig being careful to position it at the same starting point where it is not touching the work piece.
	She turns the router on and carefully keeps the router firmly against the jig moving in a clockwise direction until the router has completed its cut. She turns the router off and waits for it to come to a complete stop before removing it from the jig.
It feels smooth and looks great but Maureen knows that the only thing that counts is how it will fit.
	It fit together perfectly. This will be a very strong coffee table base.    It was easy for Maureen to do this joint since we had already set up the Quick Tenon. That is what makes it a production device — it is easy to set up and quick to make perfect, repeatable tenons, sliding dovetails and their mortises and sockets.    Next week we will detail each of the set up procedures and add a few jigs that we made to make face frames faster, easier and tighter. These set up procedures will be available in *.pdf format from the Quick Tenon site.