Bob...

Thank you for your reply. It's looking like the "rumor" the chisel mortisers are no longer sold in the USA might just be true.

Initially I was going to use a old fashion boring machine. Tried on at the Heartwood school...my arthitus will have no part of climbing up on the timber to sit on the machine...much less a shoulder with an old injury that really didn't take well to cranking the machine.

I'm going the way of "Time The Tooltime Toolman"...more power!

Joel