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Thin Stock Ripping Jig

Blog entry by David posted 982 days ago 951 reads 2 times favorited 17 comments Add to Favorites Watch

THIN STOCK RIPPING JIG

This thin stock ripping jig is modified an article in the 2006 WOOD Magazine’s Best-Ever Woodworking Jigs, Homemade Tools, & Shop Organizers (pgs 6-7). My jig is made from cherry & cherry plywood. It is finished with tung oil, lacquer and wax.

I will be working a project soon that will require ripping matching thin stock for edge banding. After reading this article, I thought this is the perfect solution to quickly make a consistent quantity of edge banding.

The jig is made from scrap bin materials – cherry and cherry plywood. The hardware is from my “miscellaneous nuts & bolts” jar. The only item I purchased was the Miter Slot Hardware Kit from my local Rockler store. You could easily substitute a hardwood runner as illustrated in the Wood Magazine article. I just liked the idea of being able to lock the jig down for multiple cuts.

The jig is basically the same as the article with the following modifications.

A small wooden knob was added the slide rail to make fine adjustments easier.

The hardwood miter slot runner was replaced with a Miter Slot Hardware Kit ($3.99) runner from Rockler.

The tip of the registration bar is a 10-24 socket head set screw mounted in a 10-24 threaded Pop-Rivet insert. A compression spring holds the screw in position once it has been set for the saw blade.

The scale is made from a paper inch ruler downloaded from: Paper Rulers

After trimming the ruler to size it was clear coated with spray shellac and glued in place on the registration bar. The Plexiglas cover is from an old broken drafting triangle.

Use of the Thin Stock Ripping Jig

The jig is easy to use. Just place it in your miter slot. Adjust to zero with the head of the socket screw just touching the saw blade. Slide the jig to the rear of the miter slot as far as possible behind the blade. Loosen the large adjusting knob and set the jig to the desired thickness.

With your stock against the rip fence, slide the fence until the stock is just touching the socket screw. The saw is now set to rip thin stock of the desired thickness. Now all you have to do is move the fence over each time, touching the socket screw, and rip another piece of stock of the same thickness.

Don’t forget to use the appropriate safety gear, blade guards and push block!

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com


17 comments so far

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Karson

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posted 982 days ago

David. That is a neat jig. I hope I can find it when I need it.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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Max

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posted 982 days ago

That is a pretty cool jig!!!!! I bet it works great!!!

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

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WayneC

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posted 982 days ago

Very nice!

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

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Greg3G

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posted 982 days ago

Looks great…I would count this as shop Furniture…being cherry and having such a nice look to the peice. Great work.

-- Greg - Charles Town, WV

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Don

2590 posts in 1076 days


posted 981 days ago

It’s on my list, David.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/

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oscorner

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posted 955 days ago

That is one professionally done jig, David.

-- Jesus is Lord!

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David

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posted 955 days ago

Thanks for the comments guys!

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

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WayneC

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posted 765 days ago

Hi. Folks were looking for photos today. Douglass and Max…

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

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Thos. Angle

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posted 765 days ago

I can’t seem to get photos either

-- Thos. Angle

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WayneC

6069 posts in 997 days


posted 765 days ago

David upgraded some software and it broke his posts. He have been fixing them. I found the post on his web site. You can go here till he gets it fixed. He is on vacation.

http://web.mac.com/usnerdoc/Woodworking/TFRS_Podcast/Entries/2007/9/6_Episode_17_-_Thin_Stock_Ripping_Jig.html

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

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Douglas Bordner

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posted 765 days ago

From some of the internet postings that were similar to David’s, if you are so inclined to make your own miter runner, one left the runner long enough to extend beyond the front of the table. They just drove a screw up from the bottom and left it not driven home as a way to fix the jig at it’s position in front of the blade. But the tension spring on David’s screw head was an elegance that wasn’t seen elsewhere. Gotta build me one.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

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David

1982 posts in 1038 days


posted 762 days ago

Douglas -

I will get thses updated as soon as I return home – my apologies for the broken links. Lots of headaches getting the links straightened out!

Thanks Wayne for posting the link on my website!

David

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

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Mateo

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posted 187 days ago

I would love to see this jig. Seems the link to his website is no longer working either. :(

-- Mateo

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Bob #2

3056 posts in 921 days


posted 187 days ago

Try this:
http://foldingrule.blogspot.com/2007/10/thin-stock-ripping-jig.html

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

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a1Jim

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posted 187 days ago

Hey Dave
this is a cool jig well done looks first class for sure.
Hey Bob #2 thanks for the link

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture ,maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com

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David

1982 posts in 1038 days


posted 187 days ago

Mateo -

Many apologies! I wasn’t aware that the photo links had broken. When I first started with LJ I was using a different photo hosting site. I thought I had corrected all the broken links when I migrated to my current photo host. I will correct these links within the next day or so (couple of long shifts at work ahead of me!).

Bob #2 -

Thanks for the cross post link to The Folding Rule.

David

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

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Bob #2

3056 posts in 921 days


posted 187 days ago

Hi Dave, Sh.. happens.
Ideally the host should keep the pics but this place got legs so early that scrounging for guys to subsidise server space could have been a knockout punch for the Martin crew.
As it is, it seems to be working not that badly considering the dependence it has across the net and so many servers.
Good luck with your cross stitching. <vbg>

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

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