Atom #2: Zen and the art of jig making (or Getting Jiggy with it)

Another Amazing Box from the Master Brit! What wood did you use? Looks like purpleheart, yellowheart, padauk, maple, and cherry??

-- I wouldn't be so arrogant if you weren't such a moron!

I know how it is to ponder something as simple as cutting wood. I find your box making methodolgy very interesting and will have to make a go of it very soon. Thanks for sharing, I do enjoy reading your blog posts.

-- Joe Truehart - The Craftsmans Woodshop

Cool Martyn. Re: “just because I hope I can” comment in segment # one, is it any fun if you know you can?

PS: You do know that you may be starting a “challenge of diminishing returns” don’t you. Which man will be able in the end to claim “Mine’s smaller than yours”?

-- Paul M ..............If God wanted us to have fiberglass boats he would have given us fiberglass trees. http://prmdesigns.com/

Wow!
This is one nice project.
I’m impatient. :) Nearly as good as waiting 4 Santa. :)
Jamie

-- Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Crushgroovin’, thanks and the wood types are in part one of the blog.

Joe, thank you. I sometime wonder if I make it seem too simple. Once you get the trick though its easy.

-- Martyn -- Boxologist, Pattern Juggler and Candyman of the visually challenging. http://www.theartofboxes.com

Cool. Clean. Logical. I love the way you think things through so thoroughly when doing a project such as this. It looks so easy because you do it right.

Great project, Martyn. And wonderful lesson.

It is simply beautiful. I can’t wait to see the next step.

Thanks. :) Sheila

-- Contributing Editor, Creative Woodworks and Crafts, Sheila Landry Designs http://www.sheilalandrydesigns.com "Knowledge is Power"

You’re doing good. My that is small.

I hate those nights, laying awake, thinking. But then again, I love ‘em. It is what keeps me (and I believe you) going. Finding balance is what is needed.

Steve

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Martyn, Each day you leave the shop, count your finger to make sure they are all still there! WOW! tiny pieces. If anyone can do it, it’s you!

-- If you don't work, you don't eat!.....Garland, TX

just leave it on the workbench for the night and the elves will put it together!

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

What a clever solution! I am impressed my man. Many times, my moments of brilliance (relatively speaking!) happens in the shower….!

-- Div @ the bottom end of Africa. "A woodworker's sharpest tool should be his mind."

DOOOOH! there I got kicked of the truck in the roadcurve a ½ mile back
but I take a hike and return to the next installment Proffessor

I like the way you used the Mdf to make it safer to cut
take care

Dennis

genius!

-- A woman's work is never done-but power tools help!

Brilliant and simple… But needs a lot of practice specially in the accuracy part.. Thanks Martyn for posting.

-- Bert

That is a good pic Autumn, love it! Excellant explanation of how it works and how Martyn solved his problem.

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence

excellent solution martyn

reminds me about a story
i read about somewhere

the germans made the worlds smallest roller bearing
and were bragging about it to the world
in the hopes
of selling the technology
needed an electron microscope to see it

the japanese asked to get a look at it
the germans sent it to them
the japanese sent it back
about a month later

well the germans asked what they thought about it

“oh it is nice
but we don’t need your help”

in side the inner race hole
they had made one smaller

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle