Horizontal Slot Mortiser

[Rob Will]

Does anyone have experience with a Horizontal Slot Mortiser such as this Invicta machine?
Do you know of any internet links that show other machines of this type?
What are the drawbacks to using this approach to mortising?
Thanks,
Rob

[Reg Mitchell]

Hey Rob
I was just by cahnce talking to a guy that use to run one of those last night. He sain they are the stuff. get them ajusted and it's one after another perfice slots. Thers is a tenoner that he tlaked about too that cuts them with tthe radious on the ends and they fit perfict. I will try to remember to ask the name of it tomorrow

[Alan Turner]

Rob,
I have looked at the Invicta literature, and I seem to recall that is an x-y-z- table, whereas others have an s-y-z- head. I have an older Griggio which is the x-y-z- table. Problem with this design is working on larger pieces. Even though the machine is about #450, still you can'nt really move the work that efficiently on the table. For samller work it is no problem at all. Quick, accurate, pretty quiet. No DC, but becaue of the slow speed, it is not bad.

I think Felder makes one with the moving head, but not sure.

I also seem to recall that the Invicta table does not tilt, which would be handy for chair work.

If you find something great, let us know as I too am interested.

[Charlie Plesums]

Functionally that is identical to the slot mortiser on my MiniMax combo... a cast iron table that moves the work left/right, cutting a slot, while gradually plunging. The height of the table is crank adjusted to position the mortise. My machine faces the wall, so I can do aprons up to about 3 feet long - beyond that I am not moving the machine (which weighs over a ton). I do a lot of floating tenons - works great.

A machine that does both rounded tenons and slot mortising is the "Multirouter", made famous by David Marks on the Woodworks TV show.

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

It's going to be hard to go wrong with an invicta.

[Brian Jarnell]

I find the one off the Robland combo very good.
I bought it seperately and mounted on a RSJ.
http://www.jacks.co.nz/combi_planer__thicknesser.html


http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y79.../Mortiser1.jpg

[Reg Mitchell]

here you go Rob....George said this thing is slick
http://www.solidwoodsystems.com/micron.htm

[Rob Will]

I wonder how much of this will be at IWF Atlanta (coming up in August)?

Thanks,
Rob

[Rob Will]

Anybody know about Paoloni or Panhans?
Here is a manually operated slot mortiser in which it appears that the head moves and the work table remains stationary.
Would they cost an arm and leg or just an arm?
Has there been anything in new / old American Iron that operates like this?
Any opinions on these machines?
Thanks,
Rob

[Jim Becker]

I wonder how much of this will be at IWF Atlanta (coming up in August)?

I can't say about mortisers in particular, but IWF is "the" place to go to see just about any kind of industrial woodworking stuff including specialized tools. Be prepared to spend at LEAST two days, if not three, walking the show. It's that big...

[Paul B. Cresti]

Rob,
Just about every european manuf. has a horizontal mortiser... check out MiniMax, Rojek, Knapp and others..and something else to think about, if you do not have a jointer already many of these european jointers (16" , 20") have the option of adding a mortising attachment to their machines. I do believe the big MM jointers do as the big Rojeks.