On 1/15/2014 7:54 PM, Swingman wrote:
Use loose tenon joinery, with a router jig like this:

http://e-woodshop.net/Jigs.htm#MortJig1


So far, I haven't got a plunge router. But I think I can see one from
here.

I'm curious about that jig (partly because it looks simple enough for me
to make). It looks as if it uses the bottom plate/body of the router
running along the stops in the jig for alignment. Is that preferable in
some way to a jig with a bearing-guided bit or a guide ring? Or can you
even use such things with a plunge router? (feel free to take a deep
breath if the ignorance gets too thick in here)

In addition, it looks as if the width of the mortise is not simply the
diameter of the bit; the router follows one fence, then moves over a tad
to follow the other fence in the opposite direction. Is that correct?
You shim the fences and stops to control the length and thickness?

Lastly, "project board" means the thin hardwood slats they sell at HD?
Presumably I'd need to rout the tenon stock to round the edges,
preferably to the same radius as the router bit that made the mortises?