Planning and Building a Jig #2: Definitions

How about; a jig guides and a fixture holds. We could always go back to doo-hickey and thing-a-ma-jig.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

...you lost me at “fillister”. Never heard of it.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

Thos – that’s what the definitions boil down to, most of the time. Except when you have a doo-dad on the whatcha-ma-callit.

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Dennis – you can hold your mouse cursor over the president to get his definition, or …

A fillister is an old word which is almost never used anymore – which was the point of course. It’s basically the same thing as a rabbet, but a rabbet goes across the grain and a fillister goes along the grain. I learned the difference fairly recently when I was reading about old hand planes, and learned that different planes were used for making rabbets and fillisters. Now we generally use the same kind of tool to make both, so the distinction between the two becomes less important. It’s interesting that the cross grain words – dado and rabbet – have continued in common use, and the with-the-grain words – groove and fillister – are less used.

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im not sure if this is on topic or not . if not please excuse me and ignore it . two terms i see most commonly misused in my industry are window sill and window stool it would seem the definitions have been blured somewhere along the line my two scents ( assuming im tax exempt on lj if not 1 scent ! )

p s i think that very pic of bush might well end up on the one dollar bill one day !!lol

I always like the term ‘awfully good’.
I guess it means it is so good that it makes you full of awe.
But the ‘amusing’ usage above has me baffled.

I want to go with Thos’ answer, but I tend to use ‘fixture’ only when holding the workpiece, not the tool. (?)

Thing-a-ma-bob is my preferred.

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

I prefer the technical and proper term “Thingie”.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Now you know why I don’t use them. I do searching and never find what i want. So I do without.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

and now .. we know!
or do we?? “that’s some groovy dado” is probably a really confusing phrase.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

• “awful” meant something like our word “awesome” (SPalm – I like “wicked good” but I can’t pull it off!)
• “amusing” mean something closer to “causing happiness” than “mildly funny”
• “artificial” meant “artful” instead of “false”

Just think how people will be talking in another 300 years!

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