Hey folks!
I’m making a coffee table and would love to use the mortiser for the top and also need some help cutting a leg to size, luckily just the one to do there after a mishap with a lathe. Would be very grateful for anyone who can spare the time to show me the ways. Can be very flexible on days and times.
I’m very intrigued 
Yeah, what happened?
It jammed and ripped out the end of the leg, decimating the tenon. This was perpetrated by my teacher who then told me it’s probably because the leg was rectangular and that we should have had the leg longer before turning and then cut it down after. Why he only told me this after wrecking a leg is anyones guess.
Well, everything is rectangular before turning it and it is the case EVERYTIME that it should be longer at first and cut off later on… did it catch because it was roughed so close to the step up? . What a shame! Are you going to fill it or just make up a new one?
I have a spare piece, so thought i’d remake the leg and then avoid the lathe completely. Maybe shape the legs some other way to round them a bit
You could lasercut a stencil and router it out like you’d be making dovetails. It’d be fiddly, but fast once you’d get a hang of it…
