Well, I was sipping coffee this morning and perusing the 'tools' section of craigslist. Ran across an ad for a 'Wirth machine'. A quick google gives me a sense of it, and that indeed it can be used to cut mortises easily enough. $550. Ok, a little more than a dedicated mortiser but no doubt there is more than just mortises I could do with it - so off to check it out and looks and runs good (a nice 1.5hp baldor motor), with several of the tendon templates, so I cart it home.

So those of you that are familiar with it, tell me your favorite operations you use it for. (for sure I will use it for mortises, 'maybe' tendons, dovetails I mostly just cut by hand these days... what else??)

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