| Project by HokieMojo | posted 1619 days ago | 4997 views | 3 times favorited | 5 comments |  |
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This post is for a fellow LJ that was asking how I made the dovetail splines on my candle box:
Here are a few photos of the ridiculously simple jig I built to cut the splines. Even if I hadn’t used scraps, this jig could have been built for less than $5. I hope that others find this jig useful. If I were to use it on bigger projects, I’d need to build this out larger, but it worked great for a small item. REMEMBER TO KEEP FINGERS CLEAR OF THE CUTTING AREA!
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jim1953
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#1 posted 1618 days ago
Check Out my spline Jig it works Great
You Got a Great Lookin Box There
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Karson
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#2 posted 1618 days ago
Great jig. and way to use up some of the scrap.
-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †
HokieMojo
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#3 posted 1618 days ago
also, if it looks a bit out of alignment, it is. I dropped it when trying to clean up. I only kept it because I wanted to have a picture of how i did it. now it will probably end up in the trash.
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#4 posted 1617 days ago
Thanks for looking good Luck
-- Jim, Kentucky
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#5 posted 1176 days ago
The proof is in the pudding as they say… Good job.
I made one out of a 2×4 also, but ripped the v along the grain and crosscut the dado for the router guide. it worked quite well. It works like a kehoe jig – (I made it long before I knew what one was though.)
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