384 days ago
by Don |
20 comments »
I blogged a couple of weeks ago about what I should charge for a small box I was asked to make.
I thought that those of you who haven’t delved into the wonderful world of box making might like to journey along with me as I make this commissioned box. I was given the outside dimension for the box, as the owner intends to place it in a chest of drawers, so it must fit the size constraints of the drawer. The box will be 95mm high x 360mm wide x 240mm deep (approximately 3.75” x 14...
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434 days ago
by coloradoclimber |
23 comments »
Well I did it again, I ordered from Grizzly and got what I should have expected.
I’ve been wanting a tenoning jig, I read some reviews, Grizzly is rated a good value, generally as functional as any other brands. I looked at the pictures of the grizzly and others and decided the grizzly looked just as good and was substantially less money. I’ll be reviewing the tenoning jig in another thread but for now here’s a short intro to other stuff I found in the box.
I ordered...
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208 days ago
by Blake |
23 comments »
Grab some popcorn… I made a movie!(Make sure the volume is up… it might be a little quiet)
Story:I have been working really hard to tune up my bandsaw lately. I really wanted one of these:...for tensioning and detensioning the blade. But I am at the end of my budget and can’t spend another $150. I had seen pictures of a homemade version in a magazine and decided to make my own.
I posted this to try to get ideas.
Anyway, this is what I came up with and it works gre...
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421 days ago
by John Nixon |
2 comments »
Shown in the video:
This 13 minute video details the assembly of WOOD Magazine’s Universal Tablesaw Jig.
The hardware kit shown in the video is from Schlabaugh & Sons, but you could easily make one yourself. The laser engraved table is nice, but you could reproduce that too.
This woodworking video shows how to construct the kit and explains the basics of the how the Universal Tablesaw Jig operates.
The laser engraved table accurately sets angles for miter cuts on the t...
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421 days ago
by John Nixon |
8 comments »
This 8 minute video details the various operations that can be performed with WOOD Magazine’s Universal Tablesaw Jig.
This video shows how to use the jig for crosscutting, mitering, tapering and panel cutting.
It’s a neat little jig and works well:
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161 days ago
by Woodshopfreak |
21 comments »
Here is the first episode of Wood Wisdom (I say fifth because of the other videos but as you can see the title says #1 because of the new name). It is on Jigs that I have made for my shop and hopefully you can make some of these for your shop. If you have any questions message or comment me. Thanks. Hope you enjoyed. Thanks
Tyler
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194 days ago
by Dr_Unix |
8 comments »
The Porter-Cable Omnijig dovetail jigs are finally available! Woodcraft in West Springfield, VA had the Porter-Cable rep in Saturday for demonstrations all day long. He said he got the jigs on Monday and only started playing with them then. So there’s a really fast learning curve.
My first question to the rep was do you have them in stock? Yes. Not wanting to look too eager I asked him to demonstrate a few things and asked him some questions. I didn’t get the sense that he really knew why ...
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100 days ago
by Mike Lingenfelter |
11 comments »
As part of my workbench project I needed to mill up a somewhat large piece of lumber for the main chop on my face vise. It was larger than my 6” Jointer could handle. I needed to find an easy way to mill the 2 large faces. I have been wanting to make a Planer Sled for awhile now, so that’s what I did.
I based mine on one Keith Rust did for Fine Woodworking “Flatten Boards without a Jointer”. This article is available at finewoodworking.com, but it is only available if you have a ...
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286 days ago
by Sgt_Lobo |
9 comments »
Well, if you all have been following my blogs, you’d know that I recently purchased a new table saw. Being that this is my first table saw, I want to ensure that I am using it as efficiently and as safely as possible. So after doing a good bit of research I decided to make a few jigs to improve my accuracy with my new saw. The first jig I made today is the crosscut sled. Shortly I will be making a miter sled and a jig for cutting key slots on boxes. So without further adieu, here i...
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422 days ago
by oscorner |
11 comments »
I bought the Rockler dovetail jig after seeing this video: http://www.rockler.com/video/video.cfm?ID=3. In the video it looks fairly staight forward and, well…easy. The guy said after only an hour he was spitting out beautiful dovetailed drawers. Well, I haven’t found it to be so simple. My jig is an older version than that shown in the video. This is the jig with the through dovetail template on it:
I also have the half blind template and have found it somewhat easie...
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