Features Of The 3Hp Mortiser?
The mortising table is beefy, accurate, safe, efficient and extremely useful. In other words, it’s a winner. It uses any variation of a straight router bit (standard, upcut spiral, etc.) and has a very nice chuck (one word of warning – I have heard from two owners with chucks that did not close tight enough. Laguna replaced both chucks.) One minor issue is that the maximum height of the mortising table is set such that you can’t possibly mortise into the table itself. This is a nice safety feature (required, really), but it also means you cannot mortise within about 1/3″ of the side of the stock facing the mortising table (you’d have to rig up something to raise the effective table height). A small guard covers the spinning chuck – this guard was too high on my machine (higher than the effective table height, which was a problem) so I had to modify it a bit. Common practice involves taking the mortising table off the machine if it’s not being used since it gets in the way of your stanc
