Tenon fixture for routers/ log furniture

[ironhat]

I know that I've seen these fixtures for building log furniture but I'm coming up short. I'd use the drill mounted cutter but my bum joints sometimes lose grip when the drill takes a hard bite. I wore my 1/2" drive drill upside my head once and looked like I'd been
cold-cocked with a stick. It only hurt when I came to my senses - LOL!!
TIA,
Chiz

[JR]

Chiz,

Somebody posted a way to do this with a router the other day. You might try a search for router and tenon, or some such.

JR

[Mainemarc]

Hi Chiz:

Anchor the drill to a workbench. You hold the piece on which you want to mill the tenon and feed it into the drill-mounted tenon cutter. I saw this on a woodworking show recently. It seemed to make a whole lot more sense than anchoring the wood and holding onto the drill.

If I'm remembering the same post as JR, using a router to cut tenons involved milling a wooden dowel with a straight bit in a table-mounted router. You slide the dowel in from the side and then rotate the dowel as the bit nibbles away the waste.

The problem will applying that technique to rustic furniture is the frame peices usually aren't perfect dowels; you'd get very imprecise results as you rotate them on the router table.

[ironhat]

OK, I finally found the one I had been looking for. I had one a system restore a week ago and the 'Favorites' seem to have reverted. Anyway, it's at Rockler (I haven't experimented with making active links - sorry):
http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/product_ (details.cfm?offerings_id=11055

Thanks for the help and the patience. More goofey Q's to come - promise!
Chiz

[LCHIEN]

Try these
http://www.mlcswoodworking.com/shops.../plgtenon.html

or these

http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...at=1,180,42288

[ironhat]

Thanks, LCHIEN. I ddn't see these. Might be good for some of the smaller log furniture!
Later,
Chz