LOML wants frames...now I'm ready

[drumpriest]

My wife wants me to make a couple of custom frames. I have not made any since getting my new TS, which has been quite a while. I finally got in some shop time today (it's been months), so I made these jigs, next comes the frames themselves.

The sliding miter table jig uses 2 steel Rockler rails in the miter slots, what I have left to do on it is I'll put in some threaded inserts on the face of the triangle for extension fences for stop blocks. I didn't have any inserts handy, the triangle is removable, held in from underneath by 4 screws.

The spline miter jig is attached to a box that slides over the rip fence, you cannot see it in this picture, but it's a simple enough design.

[Pappy]

Both simple, effective jigs.

[lrogers]

You're ready to go into mass production now!

[crokett]

I built a bomber jig for my BT, but now that I have the mitre saw mounted in its new stand I think I am going to use that to cut the picture frames.

[cgallery]

When you guys use bombers like these, do you simple use a pencil mark to mark a cut line? That works okay?

[drumpriest]

When making a frame the important things are that the miter adds up to 90 degrees, and that opposite sides of the frame are exactly the same length. I recommend stop blocks to make this task easier, that's why I mentioned that my aux fence isn't done yet. If you are really careful you can get good results from a pencil line, as the sled is 0 clearance, but generally I think stop blocks are MUCH better.