Jig Mania

[L. D. Jeffries]

HELP!! Just got the latest issue of ShopNotes and golly darn its happened again. My latest catalogs show a new jig to make dove-tail corner inserts with a price of about $199 bucks. Sure enough there in the S/N's it shows how to make the very same thing for about $25 or so. The problem is that I have a collection of neat jigs, half of which I probably won't use more than once. The problem is that every time someone publishes the plan for a new jig I have a unstoppable urge to produce one. So like I said, "its happened again". I start checking to see what I have on hand to build it, what do I need to order, when do I start building? Will it never stop!

[pelligrini]

Yep, I was planning on making that jig today too. Like with most of my latest jig building intents, I got sidetracked. I did make room in my rack for a few 2x6s to dry a bit for the challenge though.

[herb fellows]

No, it never stops.

[charliex]

What's stop?

[steve-norrell]

"Stop" is one of those four letter words that begin with "S". Another one is "snow", which we get too much of.

Regards, Steve (a five letter word beginning with 'S')

[RodKirby]

Suck it up

You are not alone - I still have several jigs, that need the pics I took at the time, to see why I built them!

They started with "wow, that could be very useful". The upside is, you can learn new techniques when you are building them

[dbhost]

I was just reading that issue last night. I couldn't figure out what good that band saw duplicator jig was. Just rough it out and clean it up with a pattern big on your router.... Which you would have to do with the band saw jig anyway... Seems like an extra step not worth taking...

The bench insert system looks a lot like it is based off of the tool stacker idea I got from DonHo a couple of years ago... (Thanks again for that one!). Except I went lazy and simply clamp my stacker board to my bench to get it stable... No need for T track...