• Got an interesting conundrum at work today, I'm finishing off the gable end rafters for the restoration I'm in the middle of and have to make this detail where the rafter is shaped so that the step goes over the top of the roof board (see photo). I have 2 ways to do it, old skool where I chisel out the rebate by hand or with my hollow chisel morticer. I'd have thought that the latter is much quicker but it's so fucken fiddly that it isn't and I have to spend aaaaages cleaning it up with a chisel anyway also every time I move the head I have to move it on the X and Y axis.

  • make 2 cuts and knock it out with a razor sharp mortice chisel of exactly the right width. Would be my 1st attempt :)

    I like a rebate plane for this kind of thing, a little bit tricky with the angle you have but they are usually very quick if set up properly.

  • That was what I ended up doing but with a firmer chisel, I don't like mortice chisels.

    Rebate plate wouldn't have worked with the angle tried a plough plane as well but same story.

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