The “mortise” is the recess where the tenon goes. It can be cut by hand with a mallet and mortising chisel, or mechanically with a mortising machine and a hollow chisel bit. If you don’t have those ...

In this video I experiment with my pantorouter for the very first time to cut clean mortise and tenon joints. I walk through setting up the machine, routing the mortises, shaping the rounded tenons, ...