Furniture Design Ideas

  From the time you cut rough lumber to length at the start of a project or miter trim to finish it, your power saws and handsaws are likely to be your most – used tools. Although many cutting tasks can be accomplished without them, the jigs shown in this chapter will make these operations […]

A vacuum provides an effective alter­native to double-sided tape for fastening a plywood template atop a workpiece. Once your template is the proper size, trace its pattern on your stock and cut out most of the waste from your workpiece, leav­ing about Va inch overhanging the tem­plate. Bore the outlet hole through the middle of […]

A CIRCLE-CUTTING JIG   1 Making the jig Shaping circular work freehand on the shaper is a risky job. One way to make the task safer and more precise is to use a V – block jig like the one shown at left. Build it from a piece of %-inch plywood about 14 inches wide […]

1 Building the jig Cut the two base pieces and the stop block from plywood the same thickness as your stock. The base pieces should be wide enough to accommodate the edge and end guides and support your router’s base plate. Use solid wood strips for the four guides. Next, mark the shoulder of the […]

1 Building the jig Featuring a fence and tilting table, the jig shown at left enables you to raise pan­els using a router without mounting the tool in a table. The jig is clamped in a bench vise. Cut all the pieces of the jig from %-inch plywood; the dimensions suggest­ed in the illustration will […]

1 Building the jig A jig like the one shown at left will allow your router to cut hinge mortises quickly and accurately. To make the cuts, you will need to equip your router with a straight bit and a template guide. Build the template from a piece of [1] [2]/4-inch ply­wood. Size it wide […]

ROUTER JOINTING SHOP TIP An auxiliary sub­base for wide cuts To make a cut that is wider than a particular router bit, you would normally make one pass, shift your edge guide and make a second pass. Or, you can use this auxiliary off-square sub-base. Cut a piece of Winch plywood into an S>-inch square. […]

Comprising two hardwood dowels and a center block, this adjustable jig allows your router to cut circles of virtually any diameter. The jig is assembled by slipping the dowels into the accessory holes in the router base plate, fixing the dowels to the block, and attaching the block to the center of the circle marked […]