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From the pages of Fine Woodworking Magazine A Tool for Perfect Mortises This router template is quick to make and easy to use for accurate mortises every time by Gary Rogowski  Make this jig quickly on your router table to suit the mortise you need. Then clamp it to your stock and use a plunge router and template guide to make perfect cuts. For floating-tenon joints, make matching mortises. Make the template on the router table Attach a hardwood fence to the 1/4-in.-thick MDF template, leaving it slightly proud of the edge. Lay out the slots and drill starter holes to make it easier to rout the slots.
Mortise the posts first Place the workpiece in a vise and clamp on the template. Take a few passes to get down to full depth, and stop often to vacuum out the chips.
Template routing is easy on the ends of long rails The rail is thinner than the post, so to center these mortises you must insert a shim between the workpiece and the template fence.
For more on using this jig for floating tenons, see my article "Arts and Crafts Bed" in the May/June 2002 issue of Fine Woodworking (#156).
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