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15 March 2022 at 12:07 pm
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The best video showing how the mortising works:
The cleanliness of the mortise depends of the wood and the grain direction versus the mortise length.
While the cutting edge severs the fibers, the wall of the mortise is the result of shearing the wood following more or less the grain direction.