Intermediate Method: Create Mortises on Stiles

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Remove the sled and adjust the table saw fence. Find the center of the stile and make two passes to create a 1/4-inch wide gap. This gap, the mortise, needs to be 3/8-inch deep to perfectly receive the tenons.

Goal: Adjust the table saw fence to create a 1/4-inch wide and 3/8-inch deep dado (groove) down the center of each stile to act as mortises. This involves two passes.

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these cabinet doors now that we got a tenant on both of our style pieces we need to create mortise a channel for it to sit in on all four pieces around this part is super easy don't make any adjustments on your table get rid of your sled move your fence over find the center and you're going to create a qu inch wide Gap that's 3/8 in deep so to do that because your typical blade is roughly an eighth of an inch wide do the math we just do two passes a little bit wider than the last one and we have our quarter inch [Music]

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