Woodworking Jigs - Page 57 of 94

When joining face frames, make this doweling jig from 1-1/2-in.-long scraps from the frame's rail or stile and a piece of plywood. Bore the two guide holes in the block…

I've found that an old car valve works well as a live center for turning the base on a bowl that has its top edge left natural from the log.…

You can adapt a standard router with a screw-lowering mechanism to allow it to make plunge cuts. Fasten a hose clamp around the waist of the motor housing to stop…

Most featherboards or hold-ins utilize an angled board with numerous sawkerfs cut into one end. The flexibility of these featherboards is pretty limited, so they must invariably be reset after…

In the high-school furniture-making class I teach, we use a router and a parallel guide like the one shown above to cut most of our dado joints. Even though the…

I originally made this wooden lathe chuck to hold pieces of 1/4-in. dowel stock. But the design could be sized to fit any dowel or even to serve as a…

I use this jig for routing the sliding dovetail housings for the legs of small pedestal tables and stands: It's fast to set up and very accurate. I made the…

This fence-straddling push stick was originally designed to fit a Biesemeyer fence, but it could be adapted to practically any fence fitted with auxiliary face boards, as shown in the…

You can make all sorts of custom screw-drive centers for the lathe quickly and inexpensively by utilizing particleboard screws. These screws, which have only recently become commonly available, feature large,…

When I purchased my Delta 14-in. bandsaw, I decided not to buy the factory rip fence, because it clamps to the saw table only at one end. I do lots…