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It looks normal for a one hit mortise. Typically Mortises are
elongated so when you start doing slightly overlapping cuts it cleans
out much of that and it's not that noticable.


Thanks for the input.

The center round "knobby" piece is not a concern.

It's the thin ring on the edge of the mortise that stands proud of that.
I posted some more pics and pointed it out with an arrow.

I was hoping it was a chisel and bit adjustment problem as I'm not to keen
on chiseling
100+ of the suckers to get the spindles to fit down in the mortise the
required depth.

Thank you,

David.