I bought a couple of books per your suggestion. I might do traditional mortise.

Seems like searching the forum power tools vs hand tools is a topic of debate.

I just want to make this one picnic shelter, Can I just use a regular drill to make the mortise? (and chisel it out after wards) What is the advantage of an expensive right angle hole hawg. It looks like a much stronger torque motor, but I'm going to be using 6x6 treated pine which is pretty easy to drill.

Thanks for any thoughts.