I was wanting a shop built tenoning jig and because I have a Delta Unifence rip fence on my table saw, I had to build a fence and a shoe.  The fence is 18” long and the shoe is 12” long.  When building the shoe, I used a paper shim (0.004”) to allow the shoe to slide freely along the jig fence.  The jig fence references off the top of the Unifence and the shoe references off the jig's top surface.  The mating sliding surfaces are cherry hardwood.  I painted the shoe red to help remind me to be safe.

I am getting reliable results.  I used a 3/8” dia. router bit to make my mortises and a flat ground TS blade to cut the tenons.  Through trial-n-error, a 0.508 shim results in a perfect mortise/tenon fit.

 

The advantages of using this TS-tenoning jig over using the stack dado blade method are this jig will allow me to have one reference surface throughout the build, I do not have to have all the mating materials milled at the same time to allow having at least one flush mating surface, and results in producing smooth consistent tenon surfaces. 

 

I believe I will be able to use the jig fence with other shop-made accessories if the need arises.

Thanks for looking.   Danl

 

I like it!! Good job!

Really well thought out. I can see this being the foundation for other jigs

I have a UniFence and the one thing I don't like about it is that it does not accept saddle jigs.  That is a clever solution

Very innovative Dan. Well thought out and executed. Thanks for sharing the idea and pictures.

Beautifully constructed. Thanks for the details!

 

 I’ve tried similar work without a jig on a table saw and now see the difference in precision. 

Nice setup.

I tried and tried and tried and then I tried some more. I built different jigs all plenty heavy. I was never happy with the result.

So I gave up entirely and built a slot mortiser with a Grizzly  X-Y table  from which I removed the lead screws and replaced them with levers so it operates exactly  the way a slot mortiser should.

It produces the most precise slots and locates them with deadly accuracy in the same place every time within a few thou (usually 0.003 - 0.004").

Then the loose tenons  I thickness  on my planer and I can get 'em within a couple thou' of the target.

If  I want a snug fir in all directions I can size them and radius them with a router table.

 

But I just couldn't get 'r dun on the table saw

 

Wow! That is really nice!

1 hour ago, Pauley said:

Wow! That is really nice!

Great to see you posting again Pauley...hope things are well?

Ditto to what has been said .