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Making jigs and finding uncovering tips in woodworking seems have maybe become a second nature to me. I find myself even doing this when I visit other woodworkers shops or watch them in their woodworking, and sometimes making subtle suggestions to them ... as they do to me sometimes to, I guess we all learn this stuff together
Here are a few things I have been doing for a while now and I keep meaning to publish the ideas and jigs, and thanks to all who read these and offer even more ideas or ways to make things better ... I always love to hear things like this ...
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Joinery has been the woodworkers quest since the dawn of working with wood. Since that time woodworkers and carpenters have discovered many many different ways of putting wood together through a combination of joints, glues and mechanical fasteners. The quest as often been for the easiest and or the strongest.
When I first discovered the "Dowelmax" doweling jig, it has literally changed my live in woodworking by giving me a joinery system that is quite easy to use, super strong, but most of all VERY accurate and with easily repeatable results. And for these features I have come up with some jigs and modifications that making using the Dowelmax even better.
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Since purchasing my 14" bandsaw a few years ago, I have had little occasion to use it for cutting thin slices of wood, or "veneers" as they are referred to, but this requirement has changed.
Now that I have the XTool Laser Etcher, and having sampled some of it's capabilities, a whole new world of woodworking ideas have taken hold ... many or which require thin pieces of wood between 1/8th to 1/4 inch or 3 to 6mm.
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One of the many benefits of YouTube is that sharing ideas with others often helps all of us improve what we do. Such is the case with this Thin Strip Ripping Jig I made a few years ago. My buddy Bill, from the Sunflower Woodworkers Guild near Wichita, came up with cool safety adaptation for this and today I am going to make re-make this very popular jig ...
Simple Jig for DIY Veneers Anyone Can Make!
One of my concerns with this style of jig, especially when ripping very small pieces of wood, the blade "could" flip a small piece of wood upward toward the operator ...