Best power mortisers according to redditors
We found 7 Reddit comments discussing the best power mortisers. We ranked the 4 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 7 Reddit comments discussing the best power mortisers. We ranked the 4 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
>Also, if there are TWO doors in a highly congested entrance/exit and only one door is open, OPEN THE OTHER FUCKING DOOR
As a locksmith, this one drives me insane. I can be working on one of six doors on the front of a building, tools spread around me, ladder in the way, lock parts everywhere, sometimes even a strip of CAUTION tape across the doorway, and where do people try to go through? One of the five unobstructed doors available? No, they hopscotch over my work area because they see a way to get outside without pushing a door open. Even if I prop one of the other doors open, I still get about 1 in 5 people that try to duck through the doorway I'm working in. Fucking insane! My favorite example was a door at a school, where I was using a 1.5HP Porter Cable mortiser to install a lock in. So I'm there with hearing protection and safety glasses operating a 90db power tool that's shooting a rooster tail of sawdust 15 feet and a bloody teacher ducks under the CAUTION - DO NOT ENTER tape to go through. I shut off the machine and said "HEY! Can't you read?" His reply? "I thought that only applied to students." No, fuckwit, power tools will hurt teachers too.
His craftsmanship is obviously top notch but when you add in the router that thing is 3 times the cost of a mortising machine which will actually cut nice square mortises for you.
Plus- you need to create a double size template for every single size tenon you plan on making. That doesn't sound very practical.
Beautiful work- but I just don't see the point for the vast majority of woodworkers. Obviously there are exceptions and edge cases- but most people would be better served spending the extra money on other tools.
Edit:
So here are the costs:
$945 for the PantoRouter (plus the cost of the router)
$36 for the clamps
$60 for the box joint jig
$70 for the 3/4" dovetail jig
$70 for the 1/2" dovetail jig
Total: $1181
Mortising machine: $338
Professional Dovetail/box jig: $200 ($500 if you want to buy a REALLY nice Leigh jig) + cost of the router
Total: $538 to $838
http://www.amazon.com/DELTA-14-651-Professional-Mortising-Machine/dp/B00006K00N
You could invest $338.14 to cut squared holes and craft tenons on any saw
Dude, ask a Door guy about the tools he has, and or needs still. Take every trade and their tools, that's what the door guy needs. And specialty shit like a "lock mostiser" (we call it a mortise jig). I'm hoping when my dad retires he lets me have his. No fucking way am I buying one for myself. My company better bite that bullet.
Same here. I have this guy that I bought used on craigslist, and I used it exactly once. The guy I bought it from said he only used it once also.
On that note, anybody in the ATL wants this, you can have it for $150. Very lightly used.
There's a place by me here in Maine, that does classes and has plans, I've only bought a few hand tools from there but you can check out their website and see if it helps. Shelter Institute . I did a timber frame job this summer and we got to use one of these , came in pretty handy if you are doing a lot of mortising.
Mortising machines are nothing new... You could go buy one right now
http://www.amazon.ca/Delta-14-651-Professional-Mortising-Machine/dp/B00006K00N