smallest mortise you ever made?

[brocpuffs]

Just for the heck of it -

what's the smallest hand-cut mortise you've ever made?

I've made a number of 1/8" by 7/16" -ers the past few days. I thought it was the best way to fasten something in tight quarters around rather thin wood. It wasn't really any harder than larger ones. In fact, the little 1/8" chisel sinks into hard woods so easily, it's fun.

James [e-mail]

[Jim Wilson]

I had a similar experience with the mortises in my workbench base. The sharp little 1" chisel sinks into the pine so easily, it's fun.

(G)

Jim

[Bob S.]

Never measured them but made some picture frames with M&T joints using an Xacto knife and wooden match sticks and one big magnifying lamp....;-) Niece wanted some decorations for her doll house and thought some pictures would be nice.

Bob S.

[Dan Valleskey]

well that pretty much ends THAT topic.

seriously though, Leigh has a photo in their catalog of mortice and tenon joints cut into match sticks with a router.

-Dan V.

[Bob S.]

Now that I gotta go look at....

I lost count of how many of the matchstick mortises split but I ended up putting some CA glue on them before cutting them out.

Bob S.

[Layne]

Yeah, I've seen that ad too. I wonder where you would get a router bit that small???

Layne