I quickly realized that that wasn’t going to happen. I was thinking I could store the machine on a shelf under my bench and just lift it out when I needed it. So when I listened to your Shopnotes Podcast (E-059) and heard you say you would like to build one also, I thought I would share my experience and possibly help you (and others) avoid some of those challenges.įirst is the mere weight of this monster. The build though did have its challenges. The machine looks and works great, beyond my expectations. I was intrigued by the Horizontal Mortising Machine project on the cover of the recent copy of Woodsmith (Vol. Woodsmith reader Jeff Karnes wrote in to share photos of his own version of the horizontal router mortising machine.
