New Product — "CMT Tenon Maker"

So the saying goes "You can't tell a book by its cover."  Well that is not the case with the storage box of the new product from CMT — the Tenon Cutter. It says it all.
	This was a new product first released at the IWF Show last year in Atlanta.  The cover (above) shows what the tenon cutter can do — except that it is almost infinitely adjustable between the 3/16" and 3/8" shown above.
Tenons can be made in all sorts of sizes.  Elena is using a 3/8" mortising chisel so that would be one size.
	And, she can use a router and a mortising bit to route a mortise.
The CMT Tenon Cutter set makes matching the tenon width to the mortise a relatively easy task. It is just a matter of removing or adding a combination of spacers.
	When Elena and I were trying to develop the "best way", we pulled out my old card trick methods. She just squeezed playing cards into the mortise that we want the tenon to fit.
Then Elena can create this space using the spacers that come with the set. All she has to do is to match the thickness of the cards.
	The pictures to this point have been with Elena and were taken in September.  Breaking my foot caused quite a delay, but happily I am back on the case.    I decided that I wanted to upgrade the router lift so that we could get greater accuracy and repeatability.    Andrea is here to give me an assist.
The lift is the Woodpecker Quick Lift and Andrea is installing the Porter Cable 7518 in it. It is a very simple install.
	The round body of the router fits into the lift's cradle and is quickly locked in place.

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