I will be making mortise & tenon joints occaisionally in my new shop and was wondering if I need to buy a tenoning jig or can I make one? I saw a Jet JTG-10 on Craigslist, nearly new for $75. I looked it up and they are $125 new.
I have one and it is a cool jig, BUT a dado set in a table saw will do the same thing. Is it necessary, no, is it another jig to own yes. Honestly I do most of my tennoning work on the dado anymore, without the jig. Take the $100 bucks and buy a K3 jig instead.
In some instances yes. For instance, if your doing face frames for a cabinet, and the framing material is the same width, then absolutely the pocket hole jig will do everything a M & T will do and then some. On the other hand I just build a coffee table that had four legs, and the rails were much more narrow than the legs, and I wanted the rails to be center of the legs, at that point the M & T was the ticket. On that project all the tenons were done on the TS with a Dado stack.
I would like to point out that to do tenons on a table saw with a dado stack you will need a miter gauge and with it a fence to guide the longer pieces. One of the other downfalls to the tenoning jig is the length you can do. If your ceiling is only 8' and your rail is 5' and your saw stands at 36" you may not be able to use it.
Don't get me wrong, they have there place, and far be it for me to guide anyone away from buying a new jig, God know I love jigs. I am siply saying there are other ways to make tenons and do it cleanly and accuratly.
No its not a bad deal, I think I paid $60 for mine, I would guess between $50-$80 would be the going rate for a used tenoning jig. Good luck with it and spend a bit of time making sure it is cutting square to the table before cutting actual parts. Congrats on your new Jig, I love Jigs..........:yes:
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