Rig-A-Mortis (mortis and tenon jig) - Woodworking Talk

vcooney · 04-11-2009, 09:41 PM

Back in 1992 I attended a wood show at Anaheim Stadium where I saw this Rid-A-mortis jig being demoed. I remember my Father-in-law and me watching this guy cut tendons like they were nothing. We were so impressed we split the cost and bought it. 17 years later I opened the box to check it out and set it up.
Well wouldn’t you know…I can’t remember how it works? I can cut the mortis but the tendon I can only cut square when it should be rounded off like the mortis. That was the beauty of the jig, not having to chisel the mortis to match the tendon. Did any one else buy this jig and can offer me some help?
The company I believe is no longer in business.

Vince

Mort Tenon · 04-11-2009, 10:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vcooney

I remember my Father-in-law and me watching this guy cut tendons like they were nothing.
Vince

OUCH!! That must have been horrible to watch a guy cut tendons!

Okay, you meant "tenons," but I got this picture of a crowd being sprayed with blood...

Do you have a picture of this thing? Google didn't come up with one.

woodnthings · 04-11-2009, 10:54 PM

Try this idea for mortises: http://www.mortisepal.com/
Mortise is spelled with an "e" at the end

bill

TheRecklessOne · 04-14-2009, 11:53 AM

HA! cutting tendons is always a present danger when cutting mortise and tenons..

ba dum ba dum...

Is this thing on? Tough crowd...

I'm sorry I'm an idiot...

Gene Howe · 04-14-2009, 12:34 PM

This is a big maybe:

Rig A Mortise
2810 Yonkers Rd
Raleigh, NC 27604

Tel. +1 919.832.6112

Good luck.

Tom5151 · 04-14-2009, 02:37 PM

just curious.......why did it take you 17 years to open the box?

woodnthings · 04-14-2009, 10:40 PM

This is one I stumbled across doing a search:
http://primeshop.com/access/woodwork/mortisejig/
Interesting and a lot of engineering,

bill

vcooney · 04-15-2009, 12:01 PM

The reason it took so long to open the box was basically I didn't need it at the time. I just built an entertainment center when I saw this jig and figured it would be nice to have for my next project. Which never came until recently. And now most of my projects are woodturning. And the company spelled this jig (Rig-A-Mortis) with no E.