All those qualities are attainable with the morticer I posted. Although I am still considering "rotatable cutting angles". It won't get much cheaper than the morticer I posted, either. Common man, democratic morticer. (borrowed terms)

I liked the contrast as well, Mike. I could have picked the ten minute video of me boring 8, 3" deep, 1-1/2" x 9" mortices. That is about a minute per mortice. Then the fine tuning comes in and that only took about another minute per moritce to finish then off, corner chisel and slick, double check with a combo square. Total about 3 minutes/per, educated guess.