947 days ago
by fred |
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I love making jigs. It is a great sense of confidence and actually takes longer to make them then it does to use them. I like to build things in the shop and making jigs is fun. I want to share some of them with you. Yes, I know there is a forum for jigs, but it has been 36 days since anyone posted in it.
My first jig was a finger joint jig.
On my recent making of a jewelry box I made a hinge mortising jig.
When I was making cabinet for the dining room and the entertainme...
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814 days ago
by Gary |
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This was requested from multiple sites, so I did one for everybody.
Here’s some photos of my process;I only had enough time to do a two-ring knot, but it’sall the same to make a four-ring knot accurately if you follow these steps.
This shows the miter sled, the length of contrasting wood for the slices, and the bloodwood blank I’m going to use.
I’ve already squared the blank so that all four sides are the same size.I randomly pick a side and mark it 1.Side 2 i...
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421 days ago
by lew |
6 comments »
I have had so many positive comments and feedback on the Celtic Knot Rolling Pin. Thank you for all of them. Many LumberJocks asked for instructions on how they are made- so here goes. I am a fan of “Cook Book” style instructions so if I miss any details, please let me know and I will try to flesh them out.
I thought it best to start with the jigs I used to prepare the turning blanks. Please note that I always over engineer everything and hardly ever see the obvious or the easy...
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619 days ago
by scottb |
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This morning I finally got around to making a sled for my tablesaw. Thanks Niki! great plans. easier to follow than the 2 or 3 others I’d been eyeing, but never got around to making. I expected this to take all morning – and despite spending a LOT of time trying to get a perfect fit with the runners everything went together quite well. I even added a box (half of a hexagonal column wrap) on the back as an added safety measure.
Never mind the arrow I drew on, that was a remi...
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746 days ago
by Blake |
51 comments »
It seems to me that we need a place for Jigs at LJ’s. This is how I imagine it:
It would be identical to the “Projects” section but it would be it’s own separate area. So each persons account would have “My Home,” “Projects,” “Jigs,” “Blog,” Buddies,” etc.
On the Home Page there would be a little “Jigs” section right under the “Projects” section and it would show the latest three Jigs p...
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870 days ago
by Lee A. Jesberger |
19 comments »
I was thinking whether or not to make this a continuation of the veneering bog, however many items here have more to do with vacuum systems, than veneering.
Hence a new Blog!
Photo one is a Demilune Hall Table top jig.
Photo two is a 30 inch long tee square which we use for biscuiting and routing duties. We make marks on the blue tape, were the biscuits go. When were done we replace the tape.
Photo three is an 8” square that we use to biscuit cabinet sides on.
P...
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859 days ago
by Lee A. Jesberger |
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Making better use of you time includes making jigs that can be used in different ways, or positions.
The first series of photos show the jig used to cut the dovetail slot into the post, to receive the legs. This had a knob to tighten to prevent the post from spinning.
The second set of photos were the jig for carving the post. This too, proved to be very helpful. It has boards on the back side that fit snugly over my bench top, while held tight in the vise.
On the e...
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738 days ago
by Blake |
19 comments »
Has anybody noticed how the half-dozen or so major woodworking stores have been getting their product ideas straight from Shopnotes and similar magazines?
Well, VTwoody has in his blog about a Finger/box joint jig, and so did mski when he pointed it out on my Ripping Jig.
It seems that every time a ww magazine comes out with plans for a new jig, it shows up in the catalogs LIKE CLOCKWORK just a few months later. It is soooooooo annoying!!!
But it is only annoying because I didn’...
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106 days ago
by Kent Shepherd |
11 comments »
Thanks for your interest in my new Spiral-End Mallet, based on the Lazy Larry Spiral Cheese Boards, by degoose. Obviously with the small size of the pieces, the band saw jig Larry uses wouldn’t work. This is how I adapted his GREAT idea for something a little different. The first step is to make the medallion that is inlayed in the end of the mallet. (Yes it is inlayed—-do you think I’m totally nuts?) If you are looking for a fast, easy project, this may not be it, but the...
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859 days ago
by Lee A. Jesberger |
16 comments »
Templates and Jigs
Whenever we do a project that has the potential to be built again, or if the design is somewhat difficult, we’ll spend the time to build a jig. This is a process that pays back big dividends, and has been practiced for hundreds of years.
In the first instance, it makes sense to speed up the process of duplicating it. This prevents you from having to record all the dimensions and engineering that went into the piece. A very big time saver.
In the second ...
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