Wood Working By Design | Rigs-n-Jigs | Hammer Sliding Table Saw Tenon Rig

napkin rings — **IMAGE 1**
Here is the Hammer tenon rig mounted on the Hammer.

Introduction

My usual mortise-tenon preference is floating-tenons. I prefer floating-tenon joinery because, IMO, they save wood. Making tenons out of expensive wood never made a lick of sense to me. For this reason, I plunge mortises in all the rails and stiles and use my own oak or maple tenons to join them together.

That said, I decided to build a tenon rig. Why? Because I no longer owned a mortise rig. After I purchased my Festool router, I decided to build new rigs and I was constructing a work bench that required many tenons. A tenon rig was needed, so I got to work.

As noted earlier, this rig was built around the Hammer sliding table saw.

Requirements for the new mortise rig were these:

Minimalist in design
Lightweight
Rig to be supported by board being mortised
Mortised board should be supported by workbench
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Woodworking rigs can be fairly strange looking 'gizmo's as gizmo's go, but if they solve a particular problem for us, who cares what they look like? We certainly don't.

chisels — **IMAGE 2**
This image shows the rig on the band saw.

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