http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworki....aspx?id=28038
This tool does look spiffy. But the video above, shows a box of 1000 assorted tenons and the four sizes of bits for $200 over the basic price. So, with tax and or shipping it's close to a $1000 to get started. Also remember that Fein and Festool replacement parts are also costly, and there are some horror stories out there in the boatbuilding community on what parts breakage costs per linear foot of billable work.
There are stationary horizontal slot mortisers for little more money, that have much greater capacity for the small commercial shop:
http://www.rojekusa.com/PHP/slot_mortisers.php
Last edited by Bob Smalser; 12-25-2006 at 5:34 PM.
““Perhaps then, you will say, ‘But where can one have a boat like that built today?’ And I will tell you that there are still some honest men who can sharpen a saw, plane, or adze...men (who) live and work in out of the way places, but that is lucky, for they can acquire materials for one third of city prices. Best, some of these gentlemen’s boatshops are in places where nothing but the occasional honk of a wild goose will distract them from their work.” -- L Francis Herreshoff
