6 Jigs you haven't seen before

hey everybody welcome back today we're looking at 1 2 3 four five six woodworking age you can build in your shop just out of scrapwood this one's my favorite ow these six jigs start from really easy to build and kind of go up the hill to intermediate so what we're going to do is start out with the easy ones this little thingy is really handy to have around in the shop and I'll show you in just a second how we use it it's just three pieces of plywood glued in a c channel and a little butt stop here up here on the top now I call this thing my thingy what we use this thing for the most is here at the vice if I want to position a piece of material in really accurately in my Vise I put it right up there make sure it's nice and tight up against that stop and then tighten the Vise down now that holds it at a very nice level very accurate and parallel to my work surface so if I'm working on drawers I can just flip the thingy around lay my drawer box top on top of that or drawer side on that and if I'm doing dovetails I can mark my layout or if I'm doing some other kind of joinery I can do all my layout right here with it perfectly level with this now that's not the only thing we use it for the thingy has other uses as well something else I use this for all the time is cutting small pieces like if I have to cut Dell I can put this stop right up against my bench and then just use a handsaw and the side of that gives me a nice guide to get a pretty square [Music] [Laughter] cut that's not something I'd want to try and cut on a chop box I also use it for small pieces like this as well it's easy just to hold it in gives you a nice secure hold without a lot of effort and then again you have those sides here that create kind of they're not perfect square but pretty dang close to [Music] square not too shabby I found a one that's 4 in x 8 in square with 3in sides really works well for an all-around size then I just add a little piece of material as a stop and that's just a 3/4 in wide strip and I usually offset a little bit in case I want to set something on that lip it's a really really simple build now you don't have to build your thingy this small if you want a bigger thingy you just use a little bit more scrap material and really the only reason I called it a thingy is so when I lose it I can ask Maggie where my thingy is now like I mentioned before I sometimes use to hold vertical material but I have one that's a lot more stable and I use this probably more often for holding material vertically so I use this to hold a panel up like that then I can just use one of my clamps to clamp it to it and that hold hold it there so kind of giving me a third hand what's also really nice about this with that bigger base is if I want to put stock in vertically we're going to pretend like this is the leg of a piece of furniture it can hold material vertically that's quite tall and be very stable so I don't have to worry about it coming off and the higher I get the more apt I am to go to a big like speed clamp or something that's got some pressure to hold it on there to build this jig I start with a 9 in by 9 in piece of scrap plywood and cut a 4 and 1/2 by 4 and 1/2 cutout from the center center of it then I add a piece of material that's 3 and 1/2 in tall 4 and 1/2 in deep and glue and screw it CU I want a little extra security I don't really worry too much about building supports on it just like that seems to be plenty strong for holding plywood or legs or the kind of things that we do here in the shop but this is one of those projects again crazy simple to build very useful to have around the shop and that's kind of going to be the focus of today's video is not super simple all of them but all of them are really hand aids to have when you're trying to build something cuz each one of them has their place now let's move on to the next one this is another material holding device and it's a little bit strange looking but if I loosen up my knobs here and I lift straight up I can raise the height of this from 3 in up to about 9 and 1/2 in and I can lock it down in any one of those positions now this isn't my idea this came from another source and I'll share that with you in a minute but I did my add my own touches to it this part on the top right here has a little belly in it so if I'm holding round material especially a long piece over at the drill press I can put this on my bench raise it up to the height I need it'll cradle that round material and I don't always have round material so on the other side it's flat so I can also hold flat material as well it's probably not one of those things that I would have thought on thought of on my own I'd have kept just stacking blocks of wood or one of those things but when I saw this years ago in a magazine article I knew I was going to build it and add my own little features to it now I first saw this jig in shop notes magazine and in my opinion shop notes like was the best Woodworking magazine of all time they came out in 1992 they published six issues a year until 2014 when they unfortunately kind of closed the the publication not sure why but to this day it is still my favorite Woodworking magazine and fortunately they're still available online so I spent the 80 bucks to get access to all 66 issues and thousands of pages of their great woodworking Jigs and plans it was it's been a very valuable source for inspiration and ideas over the years three of the jigs that I'm sharing with you today were inspired by articles I found in the pages of this amazing resource now I've seen some Bad actors take projects from shop notes and call them their own and make videos about them and maybe even sell plan sets now I don't really think that's cool but that's my opinion and opinions vary but I do firmly stand in the camp of give credit where credit is due so while I'm showing you these three jigs today that the ideas were at least inspired by shop notes I'm going to share that with you and these were the first of the three that I'll show you to build this jig I start with a piece that's half in thick 12 in long and 3 in wide and then I add another section set in a/ inch back that piece is 3 in tall total from the base and then I want to put an 8 and 3/4 in Long stepped Groove in there for the sliding action now on the back I'm going to add two spacers that are 1/ in wide and then my first articulating arm half in wide and half the distance between the fix fed hole and the end of the stepped Groove and then I cut my other two pieces and put on my Hardware now the hardware I'm using for this is from bow products now let me show you that real quick I've switched to Bow knobs for all my Jigs and fixtures just because they are hands down the best knobs I've ever found out on the market and one of the things that's really important to me when I'm buying knobs is that the steel is encased in the injection mold so there's no popping it out if you twist too hard the other thing I like about it is they sell this really cool t- slot Hardware with the knob so you can either buy the knob separately or you can get packs like this which have a variety of t- slot sizes now these are a 5/16 inch bolt but they do slide right in regular t- slot Hardware which makes them pretty handy the only real downside I found to the bow knobs is they didn't have a quarter inch knob available but I just heard through the grapevine that they're fixing that in a few short weeks they'll have a quter inch version of this available on the market and I'm super excited about that so you're going to see bow knobs in most of my jig builds I'll put a link down in the description box if you want to check it out also put a link down there for shop notes magazine if that's something you guys are interested in learning more about now the the link for this will be an affiliate link so it'll help support our channel the link for shop notes we're not making any money off of that I just think it's a great resource that anybody should check out if they're interested this one was inspired by like I think a 2008 article in shop notes magazine for a Banda pattern following jig or fixture the one they had mounted on the band saw table and while it was a really cool idea I wanted something that was a little bit more practical and had more application so I thought I'd mount it to the Riser on the band saw so when I adjust that up and down I can get really thick cuts and it's still really stable this section right here is adjustable I use a bow knob and then I can loosen and tighten that up so I can get different depths however tight I want to get to the pattern or if I want a real big offset that controls the offset from the pattern and then I can tighten it down I've also made different tips for different following needs now in this case I'm using the medium one now this system is not great for tight turns it works really good for slow sloping turns so think the side of furniture or chairbacks or something along that it works really really well for I've also made it adjustable front to back now you can adjust the height somewhat here up and down the bar but I have another I have another version I'm working on that'll make it adjustable in the body of the The Jig itself [Music] [Music] now I'm not going to go too deep into this system right here there's a few things that I want to change about it and I may do a full YouTube video on it coming up in the future sometime but so far it's proving to be a really handy woodworking aid for template following on the bandar the last woodworking a I want to show you that was inspired by shops notes are these now these are crazy simple to make you can cut them out a band saw or write a CNC file or you can do with the jigsaw really and they come in pretty handy I don't really need to show you how they can be used because we have I'll kind of get how they're used so this is what they look like taken apart and they're almost identical with the exception of this Center section and it doesn't really matter where in this area as long as there's kind of a spherical shape where they can rub on each other they're going to work and then the rubber bands will hold them together now if I were going to use these a lot or make a bunch of them I'd also add a little piece on top on both sides to hold it together and from twisting out but let's be honest this article is many years old still a fun project but now clamps like this have become really affordable I think one of these is like seven bucks so it wouldn't be hard to build up a whole bunch of these in a shop over a period of time these are H these happen to be one of the most affordable ones on the market they're made by Taylor tools and I like these a lot they have a great grip on them and then you can use them for Edge banding as well so I'll put a link down in the description box for below but if you wanted to make a bunch of these out of scrapwood or wanted to save your seven bucks these are definitely a good option the last woodworking on today's dance card is this crazy looking Jake now this is about 8 and 1/4 in tall but it expands all the way out to 28 and2 in which makes this really great for spacing things I'm going to need you guys to use your imagination this is one side of a box you can see I'm going through a great effort here I did not want to build a box to show you how we use these they're adjustable from the 8 and 1/4 to the 28 and a half so I could use them on the inside of a box and adjust them to the height I need if I'm just doing pocket hold shelves I can line that right up where I need to put my pocket holes in and I'm done the other thing I use them for probably more often is when I'm putting drawer slides inside of an empty carcass I can line that up where I need it adjust it to its height put a drawer slide in flip it to the other side do the same so they come in really handy for those kind of things building the spacer is pretty straightforward I start with a/ in piece of plywood cut it down to 20 in long 2 and 1/2 in wide and I put a 5 and 1/2 in stepped Groove in one end in the center of the pie 3/4 of an inch from the end and on the other end I drill a 5/16 hole I'm going to need three of those and I'm going to need four of the articulating arms which are 20 in long 1 and 1/2 in wide and there's two 5/16 holes 3/4 in from the end I will need two spacers they're just an inch and a half in diameter again with a 5/16 hold drill in the center now this is all halfin material and for the top and bottom to give me a little more stability I just cut a piece of plywood that's 20 in by inch and a half and those get installed on the top and bottom of the spacer the two little spacers I was talking about go right here and right here again I'm using the bow knobs and I'm using their flat t- trck Hardware on the back that makes it really easy to do those recessed grooves so the spacers come in handy a lot around the shop and we're always finding uses for it and it's a fun project especially for some scrapwood thank you so much for watching I hope that you found at least a couple of these systems useful and maybe you can use them in your shop all of these are pretty good scrapwood projects depending what scrap wood you have left laying around now if you did find some of these useful or had some ideas around some of the systems let me know down in the comments section below we always love hearing your feedback that wraps it up for this video thank you very much again for watching and we'll see you in the next one

Channel: izzy swan

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Keywords: How to, diy, tablesaw, table saw, tools, projects, woodworking, shop projects, jigs, band saw, Izzy swan

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Length: 12min 43sec (763 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 21 2024