Cabinet Making at Bent Tree

The end of the year finds Rod making cabinet faceplates at Bent Tree. He is using a special mortice bit on the drill press to make a mortice in one of the faceplates for the main floor utility room.

This is a closeup of the mortice bit in action. It had a square chisel as a framework and a bit that went down through it. It drilled a hole and the chisel part shaved off the edges to make a square hole. Repeated use gave you a rectangular mortice hole.

A dado blade set was used on the table saw to cut tenons to fit into the rectangular holes to make solid mortice-and-tenon joints for the cabinet faceplates.